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How can I left align the text in the figure/table caption? This is the text I am using to add an image

\begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centering
        \includegraphics[width=0.90\textwidth]{Figures/EdgeYarnA9}
        \caption[abc]{abc}
    \label{fig:EdgeYarnA9}
\end{figure}
lockstep
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user27940
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If you can get used to specifying figures with commands, rather than environments, boxhandler will solve this, assuming you mean left-align to the figure and not the margin. (It can left align to margin, too, but you don't need boxhandler for just that)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{boxhandler}
\begin{document}

By default, boxhandler gives this

\bxfigure[ht]{This is the caption which, by default is idented wrt the
figure identifier}
{\rule{3in}{2in}}

But by changing the caption style with \verb|\captionStyle{n}{l}|, one
gets the following:

\captionStyle{n}{l}

\bxfigure[ht]{This is the caption which, by default is idented wrt the
figure identifier}
{\rule{3in}{2in}}

\end{document}

enter image description here

Steven B. Segletes
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A caveat in using the boxhandler environment is that it doesn't allow for including a sub-caption. For example, I got into the situation of needing a main caption centered above the figure, and another one below it and left-aligned to the picture.

Although it's not the state-of-the-art solution, I managed to find a workaround for it using a minipage environment inside the figure environment:

\begin{figure}[h] \label{fig:caption-example}
    \caption{Example figure}
    \vspace*{6pt}
    \centering  \includegraphics{MyPicture.png} \par
    \begin{minipage}[h]{8cm}
        \footnotesize
        Source: the Author (2018)
    \end{minipage}
\end{figure}

The solution for the proper alignment was finetuning the minipage's width to match the figure's width.

Henrique Baron
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  • You can store the figure width an reuse it in the minipage. See e.g. my answer https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/422360/2975 – Martin Scharrer Apr 26 '18 at 05:45
  • @MartinScharrer thanks for the tip, it worked just fine! Just had to use a \raggedleft command in the text content of the \adjustbox command argument. – Henrique Baron Apr 27 '18 at 12:26