General ⇒ \listoffigures

[hasi]

I'm having troubles with the \listoffigures command.
The number of the figure and the beginning of the caption overlap a bit for numbers larger than ten.
This doesn't happen with the \tableofcontents, however.

I'm a bit at loss. Is there a special package I need?
is there a way to change the distance between numbers and captions?

[Juanjo]

It suffices to modify the internal LaTeX command \l@figure. In the standard classes, it has the following definition:

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\newcommand*\l@figure{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{2.3em}}

The length 1.5em is the space from the left margin to every line in the list of figures, whereas 2.3em is the space reserved for the number of every figure. It seems that you need to increase this length. Put in the preamble of your document something like:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand*\l@figure{\@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{3.3em}}
\makeatother

Try a different value, instead of 3.3em, if needed.

[hasi]

This works.

Phew! Thank you very much, this saved my day!!!!

[localghost]

The preferable solution would be to use the tocloft package and add some commands in the preamble.

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\cftsetpnumwidth{2em}
\setlength{\cftsubsecnumwidth}{4em}
\setlength{\cftfignumwidth}{3em}

Best regards
Thorsten

[Juanjo]

In fact, for the problem discussed here, it would suffice to load tocloft and the command
\setlength{\cftfignumwidth}{3em}. This can also be done with the titletoc package and the command \dottedcontents{figure}[4.5em]{}{3em}{0.75em}. I think it is a better choice if the sectioning commands are redefined with the titlesec package, since both packages cooperate perfectly. Anyway, since the direct approach is so simple, I wonder if it is really worthy to load a package.

[localghost]

Using a package is always preferable, because its code is (or should be) tested by the author. So the risk of side effects is minimized.