On 2010-04-04, Richard Brown wrote: > Using 1.6.5 on ubunto 9..10, and komascript book, I have some photographs > insert in floats. Each photograph has a caption. Sometimes the captions are > centred on the page, and sometimes they are left justified- and I can see no > difference whatsoever in the procedure I adopted (Insert float, + insert > graphics) or in the source code. The only difference is that some captions > are longer than others.
This is exacly the reason: captions that fit on one line are centered by some layout styles. The KOMA-script documentation (scrguien.pdf) will tell you how you can configure this via document options or code in the LaTeX preamble. Günter