[lug] Changing LaTeX labeling of Figures and Tables

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On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:41:06PM -0500, Ed Hill wrote:
> [...]
> Since you didn't specify, I going to assume that you're using an
> "article" (\documentclass[...]{article}).  In that case, the colon is
> specified in the file:
> 
>   /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> 
> with:
> 
> \long\def\@makecaption#1#2{%
>   \vskip\abovecaptionskip
>   \sbox\@tempboxa{#1: #2}%
>   \ifdim \wd\@tempboxa >\hsize
>     #1: #2\par
>   \else
>     \global \@minipagefalse
>     \hb at xt@\hsize{\hfil\box\@tempboxa\hfil}%
>   \fi
>   \vskip\belowcaptionskip}
> 
> You can make a local copy of the original "article.cls" file and create
> your own definition that uses '.' instead of ':'.

Oh, probably not a good idea unless the document is distibuted only as
a dvi/ps/pdf. Otherwise the document needs to be shipped witht the modi-
fied version of article.cls. Vew publishers would accept this.


  Ralf Mattes

> Happy TeX-ing!
> Ed
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