Change caption font size

Question

I want to change the font size of a single rotated table caption (definitely not all the captions in all my tables/figures)

Right now I can wrap the text inside the \caption around a \scriptsize{} command, but that will change the font also in the Tables Index which is really bad.

I'm compiling with pdflatex.

Here's what the table looks like:

\begin{landscape}
 \begin{table}
  \centering
  \footnotesize{
   \begin{tabular}{l|c|c|}
   \hline
   blah & blah & blah
   \hline
   \end{tabular}
  }
  \caption{Lots of words...}
  \label{table-label}
 \end{table}
\end{landscape}

Can you complete your example to a full compilable one with the used packages etc. ? — percusse, Jun 15 '12 at 23:09
I'd love to but I really can't. I'm writing my thesis and the LaTeX template I'm using is enormous with too many new commands defined. I can list the packages I'm using if you think that would help though. — Gabriel, Jun 15 '12 at 23:22

score 32 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 03 '17 at 12:53

If your document class is compatible with the caption package, you can use its \captionsetup command for the particular table (I removed parts of your code not relevant to the caption issue):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption}

\begin{document}

\listoftables

\begin{table}
\captionsetup{font=scriptsize}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lc}
  \hline
  text & text \\
  \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Lots of words...}
\label{table-label}
\end{table}

\end{document}

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Change caption font size

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