Text Formatting ⇒ Bold Caption Numbers and no Chapter Numbers in Caption

[BoudewijnD]

Hey,

I'm working on the layout of my thesis and want some change in the captions but I don't get it to work.

I want to change the caption from:

Figure 1.1: Nice Pic

to

Figure 1: Nice Pic

Were the number stands for the picture number and not the chapter number.
I already look into the caption package but I could not find the right commands to do it.

Thanx,

\BoudewijnD

[sommerfee]

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\documentclass{book}

\usepackage[within=none]{caption}
\DeclareCaptionLabelFormat{myformat}{#1~\textbf{#2}}
\captionsetup{labelformat=myformat}

\begin{document}
\chapter{Nice Chapter}
\begin{figure}
\caption{Nice Pic}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

HTH,
Axel

[BoudewijnD]

Hey Axel,

The bold part worked out great. Only the removing chapter numbering didn't work. I get this error:

Option clash for package caption. \DeclareCaptionLabelFormat

So what did I do wrong.

\BoudewijnD

[sommerfee]

Option clash for package caption.

"Option clash" means that the caption package was already loaded so you cannot load it again with options. You can try:

- Add the "within=none" option to the existing \usepackage[...]{caption} instead of trying to load it again.

or

- Use \captionsetup{within=none} after loading the caption package, e.g.:

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\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{caption}
\DeclareCaptionLabelFormat{myformat}{#1~\textbf{#2}}
\captionsetup{within=none,labelformat=myformat}

\begin{document}
\chapter{Nice Chapter}
\begin{figure}
\caption{Nice Pic}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

(Please note that the caption package documentation has a appendix with explanation of (nearly) all error messages which are connected with the caption package.)

[BoudewijnD]

Thanx,

that last trick with the:

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\usepackage{caption}
\DeclareCaptionLabelFormat{myformat}{#1~\textbf{#2}}
\captionsetup{within=none,labelformat=myformat}

Did the job. I got now my numbering without chapter numbering in front.
Can you explain me a little bit what the code means. So I can learn and maybe you this knowledge in the future.

Thanx,

\BoudewijnD

[sommerfee]

Detailed information about \DeclareCaptionLabelFormat and the caption options used can be found inside the caption package documentation. If you have any questions beyond this documentation (or something from the documentation is unclear to you) please don't hesitate to ask.

[BoudewijnD]

Oke Summerfee I will look into that.

[BoudewijnD]

Hey everyone,

I got the the Figure environment working with out chapter numbering. But I also have as Scheme environment (as a part of the chemstyle package). But the the chapter numbering is not lost Using this code:

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\usepackage{caption}
\DeclareCaptionLabelFormat{myformat}{#1~\textbf{#2}}
\captionsetup{within=none,labelformat=myformat}

Can anyone halp me please??

\BoudewijnD

[localghost]

I'm not good at doing random shots.


Thorsten

[BoudewijnD]

@ Thorsten

You are right it was a bit fussie I started an new topic with a working code.

\Boudewijn