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Great, Thanks a lot! It works on your doc indeed and now also on my document.

For some reason on my doc it was giving an error and I have no idea why...I had to make the slightest change of "\renewcommand{\figurename}{Fig.} " to "\renewcommand{\fnum@figure}{Fig.~\thefigure}" together with the rest ...

I exported the doc from Lyx to Latex, and pasted the code in the preamble, it does not work in Latex, it gives an error of undefined control sequence, Illegal unit of measure, etc...Any other hints??? Thanks in advance.

Thanks a lot.
Actually I just started with Lyx and am planning to switch later to latex, so, I am almost on board :).
I pasted the code in the preamble of the lye doc, but it gives errors: "You can't use `\spacefactor' in vertical mode" and "LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}." and ...
and I don ...

Hi all,

I am not allowed to use the caption package as the journal asks not to do so. I am using the elsarticle class and I would like to replace the colon in the figure captions with the dot so that "Figure 3:" becomes "Fig. 3.".

Using the \renewcommand{\fnum@figure}{Fig.~\thefigure} , I change ...