Re: Language spec. changes caption settings?
Johan Tegin wrote:
1. Is there away to avoid adding the options? ([onesided,english])
Not that I know.
2. Why do these options force the use of the full word instead of the
abbreviation?
The option "english" and the line
\usepackage{babel}
that is added automatically to the preamble by LyX force it.
3. Are there any other ways to change the figure caption from "Figure"
to "Fig."? (preferrably without having to edit the .cls file.)
Add these lines to your preamble:
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\addto\captionsenglish{\renewcommand{\figurename}{Fig.}}
I described the details in the wiki page
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/I18nLabels
in the section "Labels".
regards Uwe
Re: Language spec. changes caption settings?
Johan Tegin wrote:
1. Is there away to avoid adding the options? ([onesided,english])
Not that I know.
2. Why do these options force the use of the full word instead of the
abbreviation?
The option "english" and the line
\usepackage{babel}
that is added automatically to the preamble by LyX force it.
3. Are there any other ways to change the figure caption from "Figure"
to "Fig."? (preferrably without having to edit the .cls file.)
Add these lines to your preamble:
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\addto\captionsenglish{\renewcommand{\figurename}{Fig.}}
attached an example LyX-file.
I described the details in the wiki page
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/I18nLabels
in the section "Labels".
regards Uwe
newfile13.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Re: Language spec. changes caption settings?
Georg Baum writes:
> Johan Tegin wrote:
[...]
> > 3. Are there any other ways to change the figure caption from
> > "Figure" to "Fig."? (preferrably without having to edit the .cls
> > file.)
>
> You can write something like this in the preamble (untested):
>
> % redefine \figurename after babel is loaded
> \AtBeginDocument{\def\figurename{Fig.}}
>
> The best option IMO would be to make the .cls file babel aware.
This is more or less above my head (and no time to digest it all) so
please excuse this if wrong or inappropriate, but I am using the
subfigure package to do almost the same thing thing.
\usepackage{subfigure}
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
\thesubfigure}\hskip\subfiglabelskip}
% "Fig. " in italics
Couldn't one do this here as well (or similarly)?
-Kevin
--
Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tiros-Translations
Re: Language spec. changes caption settings?
Johan Tegin wrote:
> Hi,
> I have this .cls file that defines the figure captions to start with
> "Fig." instead of "Figure". Running the file using LaTeX, the output is
> correct, but when using LyX, the full word is used instead of the
> abbreviation.
>
> This behaviour occurs since the latex output generated by LyX is
> slightly different from the original LaTeX file. "LyX writes
> \documentclass[onesided,english]{ifacmtg} where the original sample
I am pretty sure that there is another difference: \usepackage{babel}
> contains just \documentclass{ifacmtg}". (Quoting Paul Rubin. Many
> thanks!) It seems the additional language option triggers the use of the
> full word instead of the abbreviation.
>
> One could export to latex, edit that file and then run latex. But it
> would be nice not have to do that. So...
> 1. Is there away to avoid adding the options? ([onesided,english])
I don't know of any.
> 2. Why do these options force the use of the full word instead of the
> abbreviation?
It is probably only the option "english", together with the babel package.
> 3. Are there any other ways to change the figure caption from "Figure"
> to "Fig."? (preferrably without having to edit the .cls file.)
You can write something like this in the preamble (untested):
% redefine \figurename after babel is loaded
\AtBeginDocument{\def\figurename{Fig.}}
The best option IMO would be to make the .cls file babel aware.
Georg
