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[ChrisDanger]

Hi All,

My table and figure captions start with "Tab. x.x" and "Fig. x.x" but I'd like them to read "Table x.x" and "Figure x.x" instead.

Thanks for the help.
Chris

[localghost]

Somehow I can't comprehend the problem.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\begin{document}
  \begin{figure}[!ht]
    \centering
    \rule{6.4cm}{3.6cm}
    \caption{Dummy figure}\label{fig:dummy}
  \end{figure}

  \begin{table}[!ht]
    \centering
    \rule{6.4cm}{3.6cm}
    \caption{Dummy table}\label{tab:dummy}
  \end{table}
\end{document}

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[ChrisDanger]

I'm using the documentclass "thesis" that came with MiKTeX 2.7, which seems to change the default behaviour of the caption environment to have abbreviated titles.

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\documentclass[12pt, oneside, a4paper]{thesis}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\begin{document}
  \begin{figure}[!ht]
    \centering
    \rule{6.4cm}{3.6cm}
    \caption{Dummy figure}\label{fig:dummy}
  \end{figure}

  \begin{table}[!ht]
    \centering
    \rule{6.4cm}{3.6cm}
    \caption{Dummy table}\label{tab:dummy}
  \end{table}
\end{document}

Apologies for the lack of clarity, and thanks for the welcome.

[frabjous]

If it's the one located here, then it should work to put this in the preamble:

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\renewcommand{\figureshortname}{Figure}
\renewcommand{\tableshortname}{Table}

I did notice though that this class is quite old, and no longer distributed with TeXlive. I wonder if it's the best choice....

[ChrisDanger]

Thanks for that. It worked like a charm.

I did notice though that this class is quite old, and no longer distributed with TeXlive. I wonder if it's the best choice....

Is there a class that you would recommend as a better choice? I'm writing a masters dissertation for an engineering degree.

Thanks again,
Chris

[localghost]

[…] Is there a class that you would recommend as a better choice? I'm writing a masters dissertation for an engineering degree. […]

The document class is not so important if you are not strictly bounded to formatting demands. Modern document classes like those from KOMA Script or the memoir class help a lot to format your document mainly regarding the typography. A package that does the layout especially for a thesis is the classicthesis package.

For the content of a document with engineering stuff there are several packages which help you in formatting equations or physical units, creating and including graphics and diagrams or setting up and filling the bibliography. But in this regard you should ask specific questions within another topic when the time has come.

[ChrisDanger]

Cool. Thanks for the suggestions.