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I'm drawing a automaton figure, and I want to name it says 'M1' below the figure? A minimal example would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

\begin{tikzpicture}[shorten >=1pt,node distance=2cm,on grid,auto] 
    \node[state,initial]    (q_0)                   {$q_0$}; 
    \node[state,accepting]  (q_1)   [right=of q_0]  {$q_1$}; 
    \node[state]            (q_2)   [right=of q_1]  {$q_2$}; 

    \path[->]
    (q_0) edge                  node {a}            (q_1)
    (q_1) edge                  node {$\lambda$}    (q_2)
    (q_2) edge  [bend right]    node {$\lambda$}    (q_0)
    ; %end path 
\end{tikzpicture}
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Do you need a real caption like for figures with a running counter or just some text below it? You self-answer lets me goes it's the second case. In the first case should the pictures be labeled on their own, independent from the figures? – Martin Scharrer♦ Jul 24 '11 at 21:20
The text below a picture is what I needed, as provided in my answer. The reason that I used the word caption is because I googled and found that. I thought it was similar to a caption for a picture. There are two pictures being drawn next to each other, so I think the text solution is easier to manage in this particular situation. Nonetheless, I would agree with you on the first solution for a true caption for a picture. – Chan Jul 24 '11 at 21:24

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Just include your code in a figure environment. In that way you'll be able to add a caption to it as a normal figure:

\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture}
<code>
\end{tikzpicture}
\caption{M1} \label{fig:M1}
\end{figure}
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Thank you for your quick response. However the picture position changes accordingly, it moves to the bottom of the page :(. – Chan Jul 24 '11 at 20:18
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@Chan: Everything with caption should usually be a floating object, i.e. it should be automatically moved to the typographically most sensible position. That is what figure does. If you really don't want a float, then have a look at tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7210/…. – Caramdir Jul 24 '11 at 20:29
@Caramdir: Thank you. In fact, I've just found a more elegant solution in the TikZ manual by using an extra \node with text. Unfortunately, the compiler was freeze for some reasons. – Chan Jul 24 '11 at 20:33
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If you don't like the position of the figure you can specify it in the optional argument of the figure environment like that: \begin{figure}[t]. Instead of t (top) you can use b (bottom), p (new page of floats) or h (here) or a combination of them. All of these options works well if LaTeX thinks that the result would be typographically correct. – Spike Jul 25 '11 at 7:22
@Spike: Although your comment was posted for a while, I still want to thank you for that. – Chan Aug 6 '11 at 0:12
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This is my solution using an extra node with text, it works pretty well.

\begin{tikzpicture}[shorten >=1pt,node distance=2cm,on grid,auto]
        \node[state,initial]    (q_1)                           {$q_1$}; 
        \node[state,accepting]  (q_2)   [right=of q_1]          {$q_2$}; 
        \node[state]            (q_3)   [below right=of q_1]    {$q_3$}; 

        \path[->]
        (q_1) edge  [bend left]     node {a}            (q_2)
        (q_1) edge  [loop above]    node {b}            (q_1)
        (q_2) edge  [bend left]     node {a,b}          (q_3)
        (q_3) edge  [bend left]     node {a}            (q_2)
        (q_3) edge  [bend left]     node {b}            (q_1);

        \node [below=1cm, align=flush center,text width=8cm] at (q_3)
        {
            $M_1$
        };
\end{tikzpicture}
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