On Monday 22 September 2008, Daniel Lohmann wrote:
> On 22.09.2008, at 16:51, Fil wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Please could you advise if you can set the caption length in LOF in
> > the TOC?? . I'm using lyx 1.5.4.
> >
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>
> The following might help you if you put it in the preamble.
>
> It redefines \caption so that everything until the first period (.) is
> taken, without the period, as "short caption".
>
> So:
>
> \caption{Man on moon. This picture shows Neil Armstrong, the first
> man on the moon.}
>
> effectively becomes:
>
> \caption[Man on moon]{Man on moon.\\ This picture shows Neil
> Armstrong, the first man on the moon.}
>
An alternative is to use the Short Title. Click on the on the caption for the
Figure, then click on Insert>Short Title and enter what you would like to
have in the LOF.
Of course, this will mean editing each of your 60 or so captions -- but it is
more flexible than Daniel's solution.
--
Les
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