[Tugindia] Width of Caption

[Dr. M. Kalidoss]

Try the following file:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.6}\small\normalsize

\begin{table}[htbp]
\parbox[c]{5.4cm}{\caption{Force constant parameters of Sample~1  and
Sample~2  in units of 10$^{4}$~dyne cm$^{ - 1}$.}}
%\\          	%%% Remove the % sign at the beginning of this line and see the result!
\begin{tabular}{||c|cc||}
\hline\hline
Symbol& \multicolumn{2}{c||}{Value for} \\
\cline{2-3}
      & Sample~1 & Sample~2 \\
\hline
A& -3.2992& -5.9960 \\
B& -2.64017& -4.54166 \\
E& -4.2283& - 5.8750 \\
C& -1.6379& -1.2600 \\
D& -0.3176& 0.0400 \\
A$_{2}$& -1.4391& -1.9600 \\
B$_{2}$& -0.2854& 0.0770 \\
\hline\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}

-----Original Message-----
From:	H S Rai [SMTP:hsraidce at iitr.ernet.in]
Sent:	Friday, July 18, 2003 10:11 AM
To:	TugIndia
Subject:	[Tugindia] Width of Caption

Is there  any way  to fix width  of caption equal  to width  of table?
Sometimes,  it happen  that for  less  wide table  with long  caption,
caption is  covering whole  text-width while  table covering  only one
third of that.

I found that desired thing happening by default in case of longtable.

-- 
H.S.Rai