Update CSS to left justify table captions

[slochower]

I suggest changing the CSS to left justify table captions, since the main text is left justified and the figure captions are as well. For example, only the table caption in this document is center justified: https://greenelab.github.io/meta-review/v/b8eeea542ce238bbcaf2023add2aecb86ef726bd/

It's not immediately obvious where to change the CSS to accomplish this, but I didn't look thoroughly.

[agitter]

That's a good idea. It should be consistent with the figures.

[dhimmel]

Yeah figure formatting is NOT GOOD. I made some changes for the Project Rephetio Manuscript in https://github.com/dhimmel/rephetio-manuscript/commit/c78f9ad09d063982a1668a285b2fdf7b14c9df05. This includes the caption fix:

/**
* Make caption text left-aligned (previousely it was centered).
*/
caption {
    text-align: left;
}

I'll open a PR here.

[slochower]

Nice, happy to take a look at the PR. This has motivated me to find my tweak for centering non-full-width images mentioned in https://github.com/greenelab/manubot-rootstock/issues/55#issuecomment-398908740.

[dhimmel]

We can also set the caption-side property to top or bottom to specify where the caption should go. top is default and current behavior. PeerJ uses top for tables. However, bottom would match the figure behavior. Preferences?

[vsmalladi]

I prefer top.

[slochower]

I prefer bottom, but I think most journals have it at top.

Consider changing https://github.com/greenelab/manubot-rootstock/blob/9aec6f5c2eeca9002a5ce4dc06808fc2fbec24f3/webpage/github-pandoc.css#L282-L284 to

img {
  display:block;
  margin-left:auto;
  margin-right:auto;
  max-width:100%
}

to center non-full-width images.

[dhimmel]

I prefer bottom, but I think most journals have it at top.

Here's some LaTeX discussion on why top is standard, although I think I'm starting to prefer bottom for consistency with figure captions and the order in the markdown-pandoc source.

[agitter]

I've grown accustomed to table captions on top, but I'm perfectly fine being overruled if others prefer bottom.