General ⇒ Figure captions

[elundale]

Hiya,

I have a problem with figures. I want to make numbered figures I can refer to but I don't want my figures to have captions except for the number. So the caption should be "Figure #".
Now I tried to use \caption{}, but that produces "Figure #:". So my question is basically: how do I get rid of the semicolon?
Thanks

[countbela666]

Hi,

the package caption allows you to format captions of floating environments as you wish. The following code produces your specified result:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage[labelsep=none]{caption}
\begin{document}
  \begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics{foo}
    \caption{}
  \end{figure}
\end{document}

Regards
Marcel

[elundale]

Thanks for helping me!
It still doesn't seem to work though, I still get "Figure 1:" as caption instead of "Figure 1". Maybe I'm doing something wrong.

[countbela666]

I would be really suprised If you got this unpleasant result by compiling my minimal working example, so my first question is: did you compile my code without altering it and did you get any error messages or warnings? If your LaTeX installation is up-to-date this example is supposed to work.

If you just copied my code into a LaTeX document of your own, a package conflict could be the reason for the failure. In order to specify the "bad guy" you should shrink your own file down to a minimal working example (MWE).

Regards
Marcel

[elundale]

When compiling your code I got these errors:
! LaTeX Error: Unknown option `demo' for package `graphics'.
! LaTeX Error: Unknown option `labelsep=none' for package `caption'.
I use pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b (Web2C 7.4.5)

When removing the options and using this code:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\begin{document}
  \begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics{DEMO/Figures/rain1}
    \caption{}
  \end{figure}
\end{document}

I get the semicolons again.

[countbela666]

These errors show that your LaTeX installation is not up-to-date. When using the command \listfiles before my code, you get a list of the included packages with their version numbers printed to the LOG file.

My list reads like this (last update was two weeks ago):

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 *File List*
 article.cls    2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
  size10.clo    2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX file (size option)
graphicx.sty    1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
  keyval.sty    1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
graphics.sty    2006/02/20 v1.0o Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
    trig.sty    1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
graphics.cfg    2005/12/29 v1.2 MiKTeX 'graphics' configuration
  pdftex.def    2007/04/17 v0.04g Graphics/color for pdfTeX
 caption.sty    2007/04/16 v3.0q Customising captions (AR)
caption3.sty    2007/04/11 v3.0q caption3 kernel (AR)
supp-pdf.tex
 ***********

Especially your caption.sty and your graphics.sty seem to be too old. You should update your LaTeX installation and try again.

Regards
Marcel

[elundale]

Ah, that must be the problem. My packages seem to be quite old. I can't download a new version where I am right now, but I will try at home this evening. Thank you so much for helping me!

[dimarcom]

Hi,

I ran into a stupid problem: i need to use an fbox in the caption of a figure, because that's my convention for describing buttons in a software. I also need to use the xcolor package, because i need those fboxes to be red or green or yellow sometimes.

The fboxes and fcolorboxes don't cause any problem if they are outside the captions of figures (i haven't tried in tables - yet), but if i put them inside a caption, LaTeX will compile only if i remove the \usepackage{xcolor}.

I put a bit of code below. I use TexnicCenter on Windows.
i just need the basic colors, maybe there is another package than xcolor i could use ?

Thanks for any help...
Marie.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\documentclass[12pt]{scrbook}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
%\usepackage{xcolor}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\centering
\caption{\fbox{\mbox{\textsl Show param}}}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Marie,

use \textsl with param: \textsl{Show param} otherwise only the next letter will be slanted.

The caption problem can be solved by using \protect:

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\caption{\protect\fbox{\mbox{\textsl{Show param}}}}

Stefan

[Andre Smit]

How would one capitalize the FIGURE or TABLE part of the caption only and not the label itself. For example:

FIGURE 1 This Is A Figure Caption

TIA