Styling of captions

This separates the captions from the surrounding text.

preamble.tex

@@ -45,6 +45,14 @@
 %\usepackage{subfig}
 %\newcommand{\subfigureautorefname}{\figureautorefname}
 
+\RequirePackage[margin=1em, labelfont=bf,
+                singlelinecheck=true, font=sl,
+                compatibility=false% Unsupported feature that suppresses the incompatibility checks...
+                ]{caption}
+\captionsetup[figure]{position=bottom}
+\captionsetup[table]{position=top}
+\DeclareCaptionOption{parskip}[]{}% Unclear workaround for conflict between captions, subfig, and parskip.
+
 \usepackage{verbatim}
 % The fixltx2e that was used for textsubscript is no longer needed for pdf, but is needed by latexml
 \ifpdf