General ⇒ part of a caption in a figure ...

[kkonst]

Hi,

I am writing my Ph.D. thesis in Latex. At the beginning of the thesis a list of the captions of the figures in the thesis is generated. However, some of the captions are long so I was wondering whether there is a way so that only a substring of the caption is used in this list of figures.

To give you an example, imagine that the caption in some figure is:
\caption{Setup of a localization system that uses landmarks (or Access
Points) that record radio properties.}

I want only the following string to appear in the list of figures at
the beginning of the thesis: "Setup of a localization system that uses
landmarks".

Does anyone know how to do this?

Thank you,
Kosta

[tripwire45]

Greetings, Kosta, The answer is at the following link under "Lists of figures and tables".

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floa ... and_tables

You can specify a short caption for your list of figures and retain the longer one to be displayed with the figure itself.

-Trip

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Kosta,

welcome to the LaTeX Community board!
Trip already gave a link to a solution that will work. I just want to mention that the caption package gives even more features and flexibility and is well documented.

Stefan