General ⇒ Revtex4-1 and caption title problem

[Cham]

I'm getting this error message in the console during compilation :

Package frenchb.ldf Warning: Figures' and tables' captions might look like
(frenchb.ldf) `Figure 1:' which is wrong in French.
(frenchb.ldf) Check your class or packages to change this;
(frenchb.ldf) reported on input line 68.

Here's a MWE code that shows the problem :

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\RequirePackage[l2tabu,orthodox]{nag}
\documentclass[10pt,letterpaper,nofootinbib,notitlepage]{revtex4-1}
\usepackage[letterpaper,margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{here}
\usepackage[font=small,format=plain,labelfont=bf,textfont=up]{caption}

\begin{document}

\section{Title}

Bla bla
	\begin{figure}[H]
	\centering
		\includegraphics[height=7cm]{image.pdf}
		\caption{Some text.}
	\end{figure}

Bla bla

\end{document}

I know that figures aren't very customizable in revtex4, but is there a way to set them up like what I like anyway, while staying in revtex4-1 ? If not, I can live with that small aesthetical glitch with the ":".

...

Also, what about the font substitution ?

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `T1/lmr/bx/sc' undefined
(Font) using `T1/lmr/bx/n' instead on input line 24.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Also, what about the font substitution ?

The combination of small caps and bold is not very common - it's like emphasizing twice. Latin Modern doesn't provide bold small caps. Do you need actually bold small caps?

You can see it working with a font set that supports it. To see this, replace lmodern by kpfonts. You will notice "Figure 1" change, see if you really like it or not.

Stefan

[Johannes_B]

You are using a class that was created for another purpose, you are usibng the class for a different purpose. Clashes all over the place have to be expected.
The solution would be, in my opinion, to use a class suited for your purpose.

Concerning the font warning: there are no bold small caps letters.

[Cham]

This font substitution is occuring just because I declared the lmodern font in the preamble ? I don't even use small caps, it is revtex4 that use it in its title.

I can live with this small glitch in the console, since the PDF output is very nice anyway.

EDIT : About the caption problem with the ":" in a French setting, there is no solution if I stay with the revtex4-1 class ?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

About the caption problem with the ":" in a French setting, there is no solution if I stay with the revtex4-1 class ?

After loading the caption package, write:

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\DeclareCaptionLabelSeparator{frenchsep}{ : }
\captionsetup{labelsep=frenchsep}

Stefan

[Cham]

It's working great ! Thanks Stefan.

But really, I think it's the last time that I use the revtex4-1 document class. It is way too unflexible.

Too bad, since I really like its general output feel and style.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It may take some work but you can get much of the same look and feel with KOMA-Script and a few settings, I assume.

Stefan

[daiYuTsung]

I have a similar question with a different reason. I use

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\usepackage[french,main=english]{babel}

in my revtex4-1 class because I cite an French article. If I don't put French in babel, I will get

Package babel Error: Unknown language `french'.

However, if I put French in babel, I get

Package frenchb.ldf Warning: Figures' and tables' captions might look like
(frenchb.ldf) `Figure 1:' which is wrong in French.
(frenchb.ldf) Check your class or packages to change this;
(frenchb.ldf) reported on input line 6.

This is not very reasonable, because French is not the main language so that frenchb should not complain about Figures and Tables... The minimum working example is as follow:

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\documentclass[longbibliography]{revtex4-1} 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french,main=english]{babel}

\begin{document}
\citep{Jensen_1906}
\bibliography{babel}
\end{document}

with the bibTeX file as follow.

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@Article{Jensen_1906,
  author    = {Jensen, J. L. W. V.},
  title     = {Sur les fonctions convexes et les inégalités entre les valeurs moyennes},
  journal   = {Acta Math.},
  year      = {1906},
  language  = {french},
  volume    = {30},
  number    = {0},
  pages     = {175--193},
  doi       = {10.1007/BF02418571},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02418571},
  fjournal  = {Acta Mathematica},
  publisher = {Institut Mittag-Leffler},
}

The output file is attached.

[Johannes_B]

You can ignore the warning.