Caption above Tables in LaTeX???

[Michael David Carr]

Can some of you gurus help a LaTeX ignoramus?

I need to position Table captions above the table, but the thesis style
I'm using (a modification of the standard LaTeX report style) puts them
below the table. Any ideas???

Thanks,
Michael Carr
UIUC ECE

[Bjorn B. Larsen]

In article <1991Nov8....@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mdcg...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael David Carr) writes:

> Can some of you gurus help a LaTeX ignoramus?
>
> I need to position Table captions above the table, but the thesis style
> I'm using (a modification of the standard LaTeX report style) puts them
> below the table. Any ideas???

I don't think I qualify as a guru, as I can only supply a simple "solution."

In my thesis I placed all table captions above the table, as it shall be
according to at least a Norwegian standard. I did this by writing:

\begin{table}\centering
\caption{ } % as a matter of fact I prefer \lcaption{}

\begin{tabular}
text& text & text \\

\end{tabular}
\end{table}

This was the only good idea I could think of to obtain this at that time.
For some reason it worked OK for me, but then I have not been able to find
any .sty files that do funny things when placing the captions.

Bj{\o}rn
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[Anita Marie Hoover]

In article <1991Nov8....@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mdcg...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael David Carr) writes:

=>Can some of you gurus help a LaTeX ignoramus?
=>
=>I need to position Table captions above the table, but the thesis style
=>I'm using (a modification of the standard LaTeX report style) puts them
=>below the table. Any ideas???
=>

Not sure what type of modification your thesis style does, but you
should be able to put captions above the table by simply putting
\caption before your table. For example,

\begin{table}
\caption{This is my table caption}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{ccc}
1 & 2 & 3 \\
4 & 5 & 6
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}

should do the trick. And for a figure, which most theses require that
the caption be below the figure, do

\begin{figure}
\vspace*{4in}
\caption{This is my figure caption}
\end{figure}