"Hinrich Göhlmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Good morning,
>
> I have been searching the archives for the following problem:
>
> yan> How can I specify a shorter description to appear in the table of
> yan> figures list, if the caption in the caption environment is too
> yan> long to be useful? I think this can be done easily in latex, but
> yan> can't see any documentation as to how it can be done in lyx.
>
> and saw the reply from Jean-Marc:
>
> This is not possible currently... The only way is to type in a
> standard paragraph
> \caption[short caption]{long caption}
> where \caption and the brackets are marked as TeX.
This was a very old message, right?
Try to use Insert>Short Title instead.
JMarc
