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That's okay, thanks for the help anyway.... If anyone else has an Idea it would be greatly appreciated!

Sorry, i'd thought the previous posts gave a full working example, ah well.

As to why they are long, a combination of lots of very similar figure names (and so a need to differentiate them by adding in more details) and page size constraints don't help either.


\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,reqno ...

Ok, so i'm digging up a very old topic however it is because everything that is in here gives the basis to my problem.

I've using amsbook (so cannot use tocloft/titletoc without issues) and am having issues modifying the list of figures for captions that run onto multiple lines.

Is there a way to ...

I was wondering whether there was a similar edit to add the word "figure" in front of the numbering in the LOF?

Cheers,
Tim

I forgot the makeatother / makeatletter oops


Thanks very much, this is perfect!!

Thanks for this, i tried adding the definition in with the change from hfil to dot fill however it doesn't seem to be picked up when i compile

ish, partly because there's lots of errors cropping up when i change the class, partly due to the formatting of things like the chapter headings which i'm not sure how to recreate.

(interestingly, i'm coming across and error i've never seen anything like before

Something's wrong--perhaps a ...

Sorry, forgot to say that i've tried both Titletoc and tocloft both of which give errors (the code i'm using is given in the MWE above, with the two versions commented out)

the errors are about having missing } and then it complains that there are too many!???!!

Hi there, i've been working with a friend teaching them latex, and some thing we came up against was trying to include a series of dots between an entry in the table of contents and the page number.

I.e

Chapter 1. First Chapter..............................1

We're working in the amsbook class ...

cheers, it's version 3.0

is there a quick way of updating all the packages to the most recent version. (i'm running gOS 3.1 if thats relevant (which is a modified ubuntu hardy heron if i remember correctly ) )

Cheers, Tim