On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:27:24PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
> J�rg Haug wrote:
> >
> > i`m writting my thesis in german and normaly i use Abbildung 1.1 for a
> > figure. I have to insert one chapter in english and so i need to
> > redefine Abbildung 1.1 to Figure 1.1 in this chapter. How can ido this ?
> > Thanks for your help.
>
> \renewcommand\figurename{Figure} in tex before the change.
Although, this works, the correct thing to do is to change the language
of text in the chapter to English using the character dialog.
Then, all strings like Figure and Table will appear in English.
