Sorry, not a lyx specific question, but more of a latex one. What I want to do is preserve my figure captions and labels, so that they can be properly referred to in the latex (lyx) document, but I do not want the figure graphics shown in the final output. Is there any way to do this, some extra flag in the float environment that says "don't show this figure?" I need to do this because some journals have very annoying automated systems for taking uploaded latex and generating documents for reviewers, but yet they want figures uploaded separately. I want to avoid having the generated output showing my figures twice!
Generally, is there any way to add figure labels (that is, labels within the figure float environment) without actually showing any figures? No matter how I do it, I seem to find some residue in the final output related to my attempts to do this (for instance, if I do a \begin{figure} and \end{figure}, and put a caption label in between, I will still see figure 1: etcetera in the final output). Thanks, Jim