Adjusting Vertical Spacing between a listing and its Caption

Question

I am very new to LaTeX.

I am inserting a listing as follows:

\lstinputlisting[float=hk,
                 caption=My Caption comes here, 
                 captionpos=b,
                 label=MyLabel]{media/MyFile.xml}

media is my project directory where all my files and images are stored. One of those files is MyFile.xml which is a code snippet.

The problem is the caption of this listing is very close to it. I would like to add some spacing between the two of them.

Any pointers?

Answer 1

The documentation of the listing package lists a number of key-val options to affect the spacing between the listing, its caption, and the surrounding material:

• aboveskip=<dim>, belowskip=<dim> (default: \medskipamount) specify the vertical space above (respectively, below) the listing including its caption.
• abovecaptionskip=<dim>, belowcaptionskip=<dim> (default: \smallskipamount) specify the vertical space above (respectively, below) the listing's caption. Depending on \captionpos=<t|b> either one has to be used to increase the vertical space between the listing and its caption.