Figures left aligned (discrepancy with docs / bug?)

[mcanouil]

As documented on the website (https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/figures.html#figure-alignment):

Figures and their captions are center aligned by default.

But this is currently not true:

• When a figure has a caption, the figure is center aligned, but not the caption.
• When a figure has no caption, the figure is left aligned.

This is consistent for both html and revealjs formats.

Example: https://github.com/mcanouil/quarto-issues/tree/main/quarto-cli%23949
Version: 0.9.433

[jjallaire]

I think we just need to update the docs here. The intended behavior is:

1. "Figures" (which in the Pandoc AST are images standing alone in a paragraph with a caption) are center aligned (and their captions left-aligned, as captions are often long-ish and in that case look very strange center-aligned)

2. Plain images (no caption) are left aligned

[jjallaire]

Addressed here: quarto-dev/quarto-web@ddbbe85

[fecet]

How can I adjust caption align? Caption are not always long and they are better be center-aligned in that case

[mcanouil]

@fecet Please use GitHub Discussions to ask questions.
In this case, the question has already been asked and answered, see for example #2304 (there are other threads with the answer).