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Specifying caption width?

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From: Kenneth D Jordan
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 15:58
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I would like my tables (including multiline captions) to be of
uniform width, a bit narrower than \textwidth, to set them off
from the surrounding text.  How can one change the width of the
\parbox in which the caption is set from its normal value of
\textwidth?

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