Specifying aption width?

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From: Kenneth D Jordan
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 02:08

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I would like my tables to be somewhat narrower than the surrounding
text, but multiline captions extend to the text margins because they
are set in a parbox of width \textwidth.  How can I make the caption
width match the table width?  (For example, assume \textwidth = 6in
and the table width = 5in.)

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Subject: Specifying aption width?
Keywords: LaTeX, tables, captions
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