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Why is there so little space between my table and its caption? Is this normal?
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\caption{Some words ...}
\begin{tabular}{lll}
and yet some & more words & to see the space problem \\
Here is a & second row. & It is a table.
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}
I found The space between the table and its caption is very small where the OP faced the same problem, but did not provide a full MWE.
the space between caption and table depends on the document class.
article (and all the basic latex classes) assume that captions in floats are
always below the content, and insert space above it, not below it. that's
appropriate for figures, but not for tables.
other document classes (e.g. amsart) make a different assumption, that in a
figure environment, the caption is below the figure, but in a table
environment, the caption is at the top and space is inserted between caption
and table proper.
This is a workaround for the standard classes such as article:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\appto\@floatboxreset{\check@table}
\newcommand{\check@table}{%
\expandafter\ifstrequal\expandafter{\@captype}{table}
{% exchange \abovecaptionskip with \belowcaptionskip
\dimen@=\abovecaptionskip
\abovecaptionskip=\belowcaptionskip
\belowcaptionskip=\dimen@
}
{}%
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Some words ...}
\begin{tabular}{lll}
and yet some & more words & to see the space problem \\
Here is a & second row. & It is a table.
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}
\usepackage{caption}will solve your problem. Edit: this is also the solution to the problem of the question you linked.\documentclass{article} \usepackage{caption} \begin{document} \begin{table} \caption{Some words ...} \begin{tabular}{lll} and yet some & more words & to see the space problem \\ Here is a & second row. & It is a table. \end{tabular} \end{table} \end{document}will add space between caption and table. size of space you can adjust with caption optionskip=...\baselineskipseparates one line from another, but in this case you can a\captionright on top of a\begin{tabular}, and possibly they don't have (without thecaptionpackage) an amount of space that should separate them, so TeX puts one box right on top of the other, making the "space" between them so narrow. Someone who knows stuff will tell you if I just wrote a lot of garbage or not :)qypgjin the caption to see the space grow :)