[lug] Changing LaTeX labeling of Figures and Tables

[Ed Hill]

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 13:23, J. Wayde Allen wrote:
> Anyone know how to change the punctuation used by LaTeX when labeling
> figures and tables?  The default article style seems to be:
> 
>    Figure 1:  Caption
> 
> However, to comply with an specific publication style I need to change
> this to:
> 
>    Figure 1. Caption
> 
> Any ideas?


Hi Wade,

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 ':'.

Happy TeX-ing!
Ed

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