General ⇒ Section headings and figure captions

[danylo]

Hi,

a couple of loose ends I have concerning my Latex document (note that I am using the IEEEtran.cls template):
1) How do I change how the section heading are displayed? Currently its centred and displays the header as III. Section Name. I'd prefer it to be left-aligned and displayed as 3. Section Name.

2) The caption for my figures is currently - Fig. 1. (with a period at the end). I'd prefer it to be Figure 1: and the caption is bolded. I tried \renewcommand{\figurename}{Fig.} but I got an error saying it doesn't know what \figurename is.

Thanks.

[pumpkinegan]

To change to arabic section numbering: Edit line 1581 of the IEEEtran.cls file to be:

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\def\theequation{\arabic{equation}}                          % 1

To left justify the section name: Go to line 3882 of the IEEEtran.cls file and remove the "\centering" command:

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{0.7ex plus 1ex minus 0ex}{\normalfont\normalsize\scshape}}%

To change the figure name: Edit line 1635 of IEEEtran.cls to be:

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\def\figurename{Figure}

To replace the period in the figure box with a semicolon: Edit line 1788 to be:

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\setbox\@tempboxa\hbox{\normalfont\footnotesize {#1:}~~ #2}%

To make the figure name and number in bold type: Modify line 1822 to:

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\def\fnum@figure{\textbf{\figurename~\thefigure}}

Note: I do not recommend changing anything in IEEEtran.cls, since you may run into further problems with these short term solutions. Why would you want to do this? Are you aware of the compsoc option which gives behavior similar to what you desire:

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\documentclass[compsoc]{IEEEtran}