How to align figures and their captions to the left?

Questions
1

Normally, if #image is wrapped in #figure, the figure is aligned to the center of the page.

How can I align figures and their captions to the left instead, in the whole document?

2

To align all figure kinds to the left you can use #show figure: set align(start), to only affect figures with images you can use #show figure.where(kind: image): set align(start).

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3

Do you happen to know how to set figure in center but caption on the left? I also already have a function that positions caption on top of the figure. Thank you!

4

Sure, Typst has figure.caption to set caption specific properties. Depending on what exactly you want you have to also set the block width of the figure.

#show figure.caption: set align(left)
#set figure.caption(position: top)

#figure(
  caption: [Figure.],
  image("image.jpg", width: 50%)
)

#show figure: set block(width: 100%)

#figure(
  caption: [Figure.],
  image("image.jpg", width: 50%)
)

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5

I may be missing something, but this works nicely. Until I change the figure placement to anything except “none” then the figure becomes centered.

In other words this works for the caption, but not the figure itself. Is there a fix fo this?

6

Hmm true, I’m not sure why it doesn’t work for figures with placement. You can use:

#show figure.where(kind: image): it => {
  set block(width: 100%)
  show image: set align(left)
  it
}

With the above, the line #show figure: set block(width: 100%) is no longer needed.

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7

Thanks!

This seems like an unwanted behaviour/bug to report.