For future reference (and thanks to Peter Flynn of the Latex user group),
using absolute instead of relative font sizes plus the selectfont command
solves the problem:
\addtokomafont{caption}{fontsize{8}{10}\selectfont}
It smacks a bit of finger painting, but works well.
S.
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:52 AM, stefano franchi <
[email protected]> wrote:
> I thought I would ask a Komascript question, as there seems to be several
> expert users on this forum.
>
> I'd like to have captions in table and figures in a smaller font size *and*
> with a correspondingly smaller leading space.
> I know I can change the font size with
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> \addtokomafont{caption}{\smaller}
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> in the preamble, but this command does not touch the leading space. If, for
> instance, the main document is 12pt one-half space, I end up with ugly
> looking and space-eating widely spaced captions.
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>
> Does anyone know how to solve the problem? I could not find the answer in
> the Koma-script manual.
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> Thanks,
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> S.
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