On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:48:34AM -0800, Anna H.Pryor wrote:
> I am using lyx on 1.1.5fix2 on Linux (pc).
>
> I have a question about the floating figure.
>
> When I take a figure and use float and put in a caption, I don't have any
> problem, however, I was hoping to use it without a caption and just be able to
> use automatic figure labeling...ie. Figure 1, Figure 2,....etc.
>
> When I collapse the figure in the Lyx window and then uncollapse it, I no longer
> have the automatic figure labeling ...ie. Figure 1, etc. Is this a bug, or am I
> doing something incorrect? I sent this to the help list and someone there got
> the same thing as myself.
>
> For now, I am just putting in a period, but it looks a little tacky. I know
> that I could just not collapse the figures...but I don't trust myself to never
> do that in the whole time that I am working on my paper.
Put {} in latex mode in the caption paragraph.
Alsom, you probably want to change the text 'Figure 1:' to 'Figure 1.'
(or 'Figure 1').
This is done by putting the following in the preamble:
\usepackage{caption2}
\renewcommand{\captionlabeldelim}{.}
