How do I make figure captions span multiple pages?
Instead of using a floating environment which can't handle page breaks you can use a simple list environment. To set a caption you can use the command \captionof
. The command is provided by
- the package
capt-of
, - the package
caption
or - a KOMA-Class
scrreprt
,scrbook
andscrartcl
Here an example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\usepackage{capt-of}
\begin{document}
\kant[1-2]
\noindent\hrulefill
\begin{center}
\rule{3cm}{3cm}
\captionof{figure}[short caption]{%
\kant[4-6]}
\end{center}
\noindent\hrulefill
\kant[1]
\end{document}
Well, @Marco Daniel answer did not work for me.
Searching google, though, I found this thread with the same issue (I reproduce the working code below): http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5881&f=45
The working answer to the thread is here: http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5881&f=45#p22785
Only to clarify, in this thread one wants to use subfigures in the same figure, using package subfig
. However, it also worked for me when skipping all the subfig
related features.
By the way, I am not using any latex standard documentclass
. I am using elsarticle
documentclass, in which the package caption
also worked fine.
Enjoy.
CODE (replace <YOUR FIGURE>
, <YOUR CAPTION>
and <FIGURE LABEL>
with the file name, figure caption and figure label, respectively):
\documentclass{article}
%...
\usepackage{caption}
% the following format will be used to emulate the captions produced by fltpage
\DeclareCaptionLabelFormat{adja-page}{\hrulefill\\#1 #2 \emph{(previous page)}}
%...
\begin{document}
%...
\begin{figure}
\captionsetup{labelformat=empty}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=10cm]{<YOUR FIGURE>}
\caption{}
\end{figure}
\clearpage
\begin{figure}
\captionsetup{labelformat=adja-page}
\ContinuedFloat
\caption{<YOUR CAPTION>}
\label{<FIGURE LABEL>}
\end{figure}
%...
\end{document}
If you need two pages, e.g., figure on one page and a caption on the next, this works:
\begin{figure*}
\includegraphics{turtle.pdf}
\end{figure*}
\begin{figure*}
\caption{
\label{turtle}
Here is a turtle.
}
\end{figure*}