On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 11:13:52PM +0530, Rajiv Kumar Bajpai mt ee wrote:
> I have one problem in List of figure. The whole material written in the
> caption appears there. If the sentence is too long it becomes very odd. I
> want to know is there some way that small sentence appears in the LOF
> instead of whole line. This is possible in Latex by putting the text we
> want to appear in []. I want same thing .How should I do in Lyx.
You first option is to put the caption in latex mode: change the paragraph to
Standard, press ctrl+l, and then type \caption[...]{...} (if you want, you
can disable late mode for the text inside the braces).
A nicer solution is to modify the layout file you use for your document,
adding to it the following lines:
-----------begin-----------------
Style ShortCaption
CopyStyle Caption
LatexName setshortcaption
LabelString "Short Caption:"
LabelType Static
Preamble
\let\oldcaption=\caption
\renewcommand{\caption}[1]{
\ifx \shortcaption \undefined
\oldcaption{#1}
\else
\oldcaption[\shortcaption]{#1}
\fi
}
\newcommand{\setshortcaption}[1]{
\newcommand{\shortcaption}{#1}
}
EndPreamble
End
-------------end-----------------
Then you can put a short caption paragraph before your caption paragraph.
