[OS X TeX] Captions in graphix

[Ross Moore]

> 
> \begin{figure}[h!]
> \centering
> \includegraphics{figure1}
> \caption{The near-edge region of a Cu-doped 
> ($\mathrm{T_{Cu}:800^{\circ}\,C}$) ZnO film (thinner lines) as grown (g) 
> and post-anneal (a). The near-edge spectra for $\mathrm{Cu_{2}O}$ and 
> CuO samples (thick lines) are included for reference }
> \label{fig:Cu800Ts300}
> \end{figure}
> 
> 
> The caption for the graphic is in a *larger* font than the text body - 
> and extends over the margin of the main body text (it looks very bad).  
> Is there someway to "fix" this?

That shouldn't happen. The standard definition for captions
finishes as follows:

    \normalsize
    \@makecaption{\csname fnum@#1\endcsname}{\ignorespaces #3}\par
  \endgroup}

with the data being passed as #3.

It is \normalsize  which determines the font sizes here.

Are you sure that you don't have a different command (e.g. \small )
for the outside text ?
Then the \normalsize for the caption will indeed be larger.

If this is the case, you could redefine \normalsize ,
or just rebind it with  \let\normalsize\small .
If you try this rebinding, look carefully at other parts of the
document --- e.g. headers, footers, titles, etc. 
to be sure that you are getting the size that you really want.

(The "right" approach is to define your own document-class
in which all the sizes are determined explicitly.
This is definitely the best, when you are going to be creating
lots of similar documents.)



Hope this helps,

	Ross Moore


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