Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Two-Lined Caption centering

[0Jam]

Hey guys, I have a question about captions:

This is the first time ever that I want to use a two-lined caption. Usually, LaTeX puts the caption underneath a figure centralized, however when you put a \\ or \linebreak, or you just have a lot of text, now the caption will be all the way to the left.
This is my code for my Abb. 42:

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\begin{center}
	\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{pics/wertigkeitsdiagramm}
	\captionof{figure}{Grundlegender Aufbau des Wertigkeitsdiagrammes \\ Eintragen von Hyperbeln gleicher Gewichtung}
	\label{fig:wertigkeitsdiagramm}
\end{center}

(Don't say anything about why "\captionof{figure}" is always used, that's cheese. I work for my prof. fixing up his scripts)

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As the second line of my caption is already underneath the text-start of the first one, I don't need to change anything with the captionstyle floats no? This is how I want it. All I want basically, is to move this caption as is to the middle, like is the case with Abb. 43., centralized based on the first line.
When I try to put a hspace, the "Abb.42:" stays left and a gap is created.
I believe LaTeX already thinks my line is full with the \\ and therefore puts the whole thing to the left.

Thank you very much!

[Bartman]

Without a minimal working example we don't know which class you are working with and if you are already using the caption package.

The center environment can't prevent a possible page break between the figure and the caption. For that you would have to add a minipage environment inside the center environment.

Maybe the section 2.4 "Margins and further paragraph options" in the caption manual could fulfill your wish.

[sommerfee]

It seems that a KOMA-Script document class is used? If yes take a closer look at section "3.20. Gleitumgebungen für Tabellen und Abbildungen" of the scrguide [1].

To me it seems that

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\setcaptionalignment{c}

(placed within the figure, right before \caption is what you are looking for.

[1] https://komascript.de/~mkohm/scrguide.pdf

[0Jam]

I read through the KOMA Skript Documentation page 138 through 142 and the working command for simply shifting the whole thing to the right: \setcapmargin{1cm} works great
Thank you guys for your answers anyway! And - who in the world wouldn't be using something with the koma stuff like scrartcl as documentclass