Christopher von Nagy wrote:
>
> I am working with a series of large documents with relatively large numbers
> of figures and complex captions. In LaTeX the caption command allows for a
> figure or table list entry and heading argument, the latter the actual
> caption in the text if it is different from the list entry. My question is,
> how does one do this within LyX? Or is it not possible. I would like to have
> short descriptive entries in the List of Figures and longer actual captions.
have a look at
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/~lyx/caption.html#short
Herbert
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