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I am no Latex expert, but I've successfully done the following to a similar issue in my code. I added to the preamble: You'll notice a similar line in the file you attached:

In changing notation in my thesis, I thought it would be convenient to change a command I named \XDir . However, the most convenient way that I knew to change it was to use an if/else construct as shown in the following MWE example. The commented line doesn't work (i.e. gives the error that \equal ...

Hi

After doing some searching online, I found that I could conveniently define:

\makeatletter
\def\p@table{Table~}
\def\p@figure{Figure~}
\makeatother
However, there are times when I only want the \thefigure corresponding to a label, not \p@figure\thefigure , like \ref gives. Is there a ref-like ...

My ToC should be double-spaced. That is easy enough except that by default (my class is similar to the document class, I think) an extra vertical space is added after the chapter entries.

Is there some command that I can renew or something to remove this space? I would think this should be very ...

The chapter lines of my ToC should only have the number, not the word "Chapter". I used \renewcommand{\chaptername}{} as follows in modifying my university's template (which is unfortunately wrong). However, while the word "Chapter" is gone, the space taken up by it is not, so an entry looks like ...