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.
\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=...
\baselineskip
separates one line from another, but in this case you can a\caption
right on top of a\begin{tabular}
, and possibly they don't have (without thecaption
package) 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 :)qypgj
in the caption to see the space grow :)