Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Formatting of LoF and LoT

[steve]

I am writing a thesis using the book document class. In the list of figures and list of tables, I am required to place a period after the figure and table number, but I cannot figure out how to modify the class to accomplish the task. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Steve

[steve]

The caption package is used, and the following modification is supposed to add the period. However, it is not.

%
% Modify the \@caption command to put a period after the figure or
% table number in the lof and lot tables
%long\def\@caption#1[#2]#3{\par\addcontentsline{\csname
% ext@#1\endcsname}{#1}{\protect\numberline{\csname
% the#1\endcsname.}{\ignorespaces #2}}\begingroup
% \@parboxrestore
% \normalsize
% \@makecaption{{\csname fnum@#1\endcsname}}{{\ignorespaces #3}}
% \endgroup}

[sommerfee]

The caption package is used, and the following modification is supposed to add the period. However, it is not.

How should it work? If you are using the caption package and patching \@caption for yourself, it's like taking a taxi and trying to get behind the wheel.

So if you use the caption package, use \DeclareCaptionListFormat to define a list format with a period, and select it with \captionsetup{listformat=...} afterwards. See caption package documentation for details.

If you are not using the caption package, your suggested patch of \@caption should work. (Otherwise it will not.)

[steve]

Thank you, sommerfee. I removed the @caption patch, and replaced it with the following three lines. The captions within the floats and lof and lot are now correctly formatted.

\usepackage[font={bf,footnotesize},labelsep=period]{caption}
\DeclareCaptionListFormat{simple}{#1#2.}
\captionsetup{listformat=simple}