[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the examiners of my thesis decided that the figure
> and table captions were too small, so I was wondering what
> the best way of making them bigger. Currently they are the
> same font size as the text. If there is no easy way I will
> just spend the same time making up a reason that this is the
> appropriate size for captions.
Use the LaTeX-package "caption". In your case add for example the
following line to your document preamble:
\usepackage[font=Large]{caption}
You can also set different fontsizes for the label and the caption text.
More about this is in the caption manual chapter 3.3.
regards Uwe