How do you add caption to a table or a figure in LaTeX?
Add the \caption macro before or after the tabular environment to place the caption above or below the table. To reference the table in the text, use \label . To get the correct reference number, the label has to be placed either right after the caption or into the caption macro. \caption {Caption above table.}
Does table caption go above or below?
Every figure and table should have a caption. Here are some tips on using captions: A figure caption is centered under the figure; a table caption is centered above the table (if a caption is more than one line, make it left justified). A Figure and its caption should appear on the same page.
How do you insert a figure in LyX?
Now insert the figure by putting the cursor above the caption and use the toolbar button (menu Insert→Graphics). The Graphics dialog pops up. Use the file browser to find your image file. LyX supports many graphic formats and converts them automatically to the one needed by LaTeX.
How do you add captions to a table in Excel?
Use the toolbar button (menu Insert→Float→Table). Write something into the caption. Now set the cursor below the caption (the common rule is to have captions above tables but below figures), use the toolbar button (menu Insert→Table) and select there the number of rows and columns.
How do you put a label on LyX?
To do this set the cursor into the caption and use the the toolbar button (menu Insert→Label). The label dialog pops up. LyX propose already a name for the label. You can just use it because LyX takes care that the same name will not be used twice. A gray box with “fig:This-is-a” appears in the caption as label.
How are images converted to latex in LyX?
LyX supports many graphic formats and converts them automatically to the one needed by LaTeX. In the dialog you can set the scaling, rotation etc. We use 50% column width (not text width because documents can have 2 or more text columns). The inserted image is now shown in LyX. The image is in its own paragraph.