Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ short, long figure caption

[carol]

Hi,
using a caption by caption[short]{long}, I would like to use a short and long version in a figure caption. However, the short version is only used for list of figures and doesn't get displayed in figure caption. How can I get it displayed or what else instead? I use kile

thanks

carol

[phi]

I'm not sure if I've understood you correctly, but all text inside the second (required) argument is used for the figure caption, so include everything you want there.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Carol,

the caption package provides many additional features for customizing captions, perhaps it's useful for you, have a look at its documentation.

Stefan

[carol]

Thanks Phi for your reply but the problem is that I don't want display every thing in the list of figures by putting in the second argument and I don't want to repeat what i put in the first argument in the second argument. Here is the scenario

caption[short_version]{long_version}

I want that only short version be displayed in the list of figure but both, short and long versions be displayed in the figure caption

I'm not sure if I've understood you correctly, but all text inside the second (required) argument is used for the figure caption, so include everything you want there.

[carol]

Ignore my message. the solution is that to repeat what is the short version in the long version as well.

cheers

[phi]

If you don't want to repeat the short version, you can easily create your personal version of \caption:

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\newcommand*\mycaption[2]{\caption[#1]{#1#2}}