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vrios＠fas.harvard.edu

4 May 2008 4 May '08

1:40 p.m.

Hi all, Does anybody know how can I add a note to a figure using Latex? By "note" I mean a brief explanatory paragraph that visually matches the inserted figure. Best, -- Viridiana R?os 617-997-2471

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fgilardi＠wcfia.harvard.edu

4 May 4 May

1:42 p.m.

\caption{Your text} On 4 May 2008, at 13:40, Viridiana Rios wrote:

Hi all, Does anybody know how can I add a note to a figure using Latex? By "note" I mean a brief explanatory paragraph that visually matches the inserted figure. Best, -- Viridiana R?os 617-997-2471 _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l at lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l

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jmlarson＠fas.harvard.edu

1:54 p.m.

That's right, inside the figure environment use \caption{your text}. Sometimes if your caption is a long paragraph, a smaller font size looks best. You can set the text size with \small{} or \footnotesize{} inside \caption{}. Cheers, Jenn On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Fabrizio Gilardi <fgilardi at wcfia.harvard.edu> wrote:

\caption{Your text} On 4 May 2008, at 13:40, Viridiana Rios wrote:

Hi all, Does anybody know how can I add a note to a figure using Latex? By "note" I mean a brief explanatory paragraph that visually matches the inserted figure. Best, -- Viridiana R?os 617-997-2471 _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l at lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l

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keith.schnakenberg＠gmail.com

5:40 p.m.

While we're talking about Latex, is there a convenient way to make Latex line up the decimal points in my tables? On May 4, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Jenn Larson wrote:

That's right, inside the figure environment use \caption{your text}. Sometimes if your caption is a long paragraph, a smaller font size looks best. You can set the text size with \small{} or \footnotesize{} inside \caption{}. Cheers, Jenn On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Fabrizio Gilardi <fgilardi at wcfia.harvard.edu> wrote: \caption{Your text} On 4 May 2008, at 13:40, Viridiana Rios wrote:

Hi all, Does anybody know how can I add a note to a figure using Latex? By "note" I mean a brief explanatory paragraph that visually matches the inserted figure. Best, -- Viridiana R?os 617-997-2471 _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l at lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l

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king＠harvard.edu

5:44 p.m.

put this in the preamble and then use a '.' in the column definition of the table. Gary \usepackage{dcolumn} \newcolumntype{.}{D{.}{.}{-1}}\newcolumntype{d}[1]{D{.}{.}{#1}} Keith Schnakenberg wrote:

While we're talking about Latex, is there a convenient way to make Latex line up the decimal points in my tables? On May 4, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Jenn Larson wrote:

That's right, inside the figure environment use \caption{your text}. Sometimes if your caption is a long paragraph, a smaller font size looks best. You can set the text size with \small{} or \footnotesize{} inside \caption{}. Cheers, Jenn On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Fabrizio Gilardi <fgilardi at wcfia.harvard.edu <mailto:fgilardi at wcfia.harvard.edu>> wrote: \caption{Your text} On 4 May 2008, at 13:40, Viridiana Rios wrote:

Hi all, Does anybody know how can I add a note to a figure using Latex? By "note" I mean a brief explanatory paragraph that visually matches the inserted figure. Best, -- Viridiana R?os 617-997-2471 _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l at lists.fas.harvard.edu

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fgilardi＠wcfia.harvard.edu

5:47 p.m.

see also section 2.11.5 of this: http://gking.harvard.edu/files/lshort.pdf On 4 May 2008, at 17:44, Gary King wrote:

put this in the preamble and then use a '.' in the column definition of the table. Gary \usepackage{dcolumn} \newcolumntype{.}{D{.}{.}{-1}}\newcolumntype{d}[1]{D{.}{.}{#1}} Keith Schnakenberg wrote:

While we're talking about Latex, is there a convenient way to make Latex line up the decimal points in my tables? On May 4, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Jenn Larson wrote:

That's right, inside the figure environment use \caption{your text}. Sometimes if your caption is a long paragraph, a smaller font size looks best. You can set the text size with \small{} or \footnotesize{} inside \caption{}. Cheers, Jenn On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Fabrizio Gilardi <fgilardi at wcfia.harvard.edu <mailto:fgilardi at wcfia.harvard.edu>> wrote: \caption{Your text} On 4 May 2008, at 13:40, Viridiana Rios wrote:

Hi all, Does anybody know how can I add a note to a figure using Latex? By "note" I mean a brief explanatory paragraph that visually matches the inserted figure. Best, -- Viridiana R?os 617-997-2471 _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l at lists.fas.harvard.edu

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keith.schnakenberg＠gmail.com

1:56 p.m.

I actually like the threeparttable package for this much better than using \caption{}. Put \usepackage{threeparttable} in the preamble and then make your table something like this: \begin{table} \centering \caption{Title for Table} \smallskip \begin{threeparttable} \begin{tabular}{lllll} \hline\hline & Estimate & Std. Error & z value & Pr(>|z|) \% \ \ \hline\hline (Intercept) & -0.26907 & 0.15981 & -1.68 & 0.0922 . \\ X1 & 0.08562 & 0.07156 & 1.20 & 0.2315 \\ X2 & -0.01863 & 0.03024 & -0.62 & 0.5379 \\ X3 & -0.00815 & 0.01079 & -0.76 & 0.4500 \\ \end{tabular} \begin{tablenotes} \item[a] Text for note 1 \item[b] Text for note 2 \end{tablenotes} \end{threeparttable} \end{table} I think this looks considerably better if you have very much text that you want to include as a note on the table, and I think it looks closer to the tables in most journals. Alternatively, I think you can put the table in a minipage environment and then just use footnotes. Later, Keith On May 4, 2008, at 10:42 AM, Fabrizio Gilardi wrote:

\caption{Your text} On 4 May 2008, at 13:40, Viridiana Rios wrote:

Hi all, Does anybody know how can I add a note to a figure using Latex? By "note" I mean a brief explanatory paragraph that visually matches the inserted figure. Best, -- Viridiana R?os 617-997-2471 _______________________________________________ gov2001-l mailing list gov2001-l at lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/gov2001-l

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