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I have a figure and include it in LaTeX using \includegraphics in a \figure floating environment. The caption is at the top. Basically I would like to have a note below the figure too. I see some entries for tables but not for figures. Please suggest!

lockstep
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Abhimanyu Arora
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  • What kind of note do you need? Can you make an example? – egreg May 19 '12 at 19:39
  • @egreg Just like what lockstep has made below, actually. – Abhimanyu Arora May 19 '12 at 19:50
  • After the \includegraphics instruction, be sure to leave a blank line, followed by whatever extra information you wish to provide. If you feel you need to add a bit of vertical separation between the graphic and the subsequent blurb, add an instruction such as \smallskip or \medskip after the blank one and before the text of the blurb. – Mico May 19 '12 at 20:45

5 Answers5

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Another option is to use the \caption* command from the caption package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\centering
\caption{A figure}
\rule{1cm}{1cm}% placeholder for `\includegraphics`
\caption*{A note}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

enter image description here

If the notes should use separate different formatting than the one used for the captions, a simple definition of a new command using \captionsetup will do the job:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}

\newcommand\fnote[1]{\captionsetup{font=small}\caption*{#1}}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\centering
\caption{A figure}
\rule{1cm}{1cm}% placeholder for `\includegraphics`
\fnote{A note}
\label{fig:test}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

enter image description here

Gonzalo Medina
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  • In particular, for controlling the width of the note, use something like \captionsetup{width=.9\linewidth}. – luchonacho Apr 16 '19 at 07:48
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The floatrow package offers the \floatfoot macro for notes in addition to a float's \caption.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[capposition=top]{floatrow}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
% \centering% default with `floatrow`
\rule{1cm}{1cm}% placeholder for `\includegraphics`
\caption{A figure}
\floatfoot{A note}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

enter image description here

lockstep
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  • Thanks lockstep. There seems to be a problem now, the (additional) first page of the compiled document has some nonsensical text and there are '%' signs floating around the document. The good news is that there is a note below the figure right where it should be. Any clue how I could rid away that funny text and the '%' signs? – Abhimanyu Arora May 19 '12 at 19:44
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    @AbhimanyuArora Perhaps there's a conflict stemming from the order of packages loaded (you don't load floatrow after hyperref?). But without a compilable example it's hard to say. – lockstep May 19 '12 at 19:48
  • @locktep, yes. I load it right at the start and things are better now. – Abhimanyu Arora May 19 '12 at 19:52
  • This package is in conflict with float package . I can't import both of them. – Mehdi Feb 06 '21 at 10:11
7

Another option:

\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[scale=YOUR_FIGURE_SCALE]{YOUR_FIGURE.pdf}
    \begin{minipage}{YOUR_SPECIFIED_WIDTH}
    \footnotesize
    \emph{YOUR NOTES}
    \end{minipage}
    \caption{YOUR FIGURE CAPTION}
    \label{YOUR_FIGURE_LABEL}
\end{figure}
schmi
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6

Yet another option using TikZ:

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \begin{tikzpicture}
    \node[draw] (fig) {
      \includegraphics[YOUR_SETTINGS_HERE]{figures_PAL}
    };
    \node [anchor=north east,color=darkgray,inner sep=0,xshift=-5pt,yshift=-3pt]
      at (fig.south east) {\footnotesize Source: YOUR_SOURCE};
  \end{tikzpicture}
  \caption{Simplest picture.}
\end{figure}

This will result in:

Result

The benefit of this solution may be that you have to set the dimension only for the graphic. The position of the note follows automatically.

Btw: If the note shall be directly underneath the figure you can change anchor=northand the position at (fig.south).

Christof R
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2

Another option using the subcaption package

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{subcaption}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\centering
\caption{A figure}
\rule{1cm}{1cm}% placeholder for `\includegraphics`
\subcaption*{A note}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

enter image description here

emeryville
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