General ⇒ referencing and changing text in figures

[dmt]

Two hopefully simple questions. I am using the figure environment to show some illustrations. I want to know how to do two things.

1) I want to change the default text from "Figure" to something else (the pdf is in another language, so I don't want the English word there).

2) I added a label after my caption command but when I use ref to create a reference to that label I only get the number and not the full text "figure 1". How do I change this so it automatically uses the text in front of the numbering as well?

thanks!

[balf]

1): use the caption package (+ babel).

2): the cleveref seems to do what you want.

B.A.

[Juanjo]

If you don't need additional features from the caption and cleveref packages, here you may find some alternatives:

1) If you do not use the babel package:

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\renewcommand{\figurename}{Your selected figure name}

If you do use it:

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\addto\captionslanguage{\renewcommand{\figurename}{Your selected figure name}}

where language should be replace by french, german, spanish or whatever you need and babel could offer (the macro is called \captionsfrench, \captionsgerman, etc.).

2) Define the macro \figref as follows

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\newcommand{\figref}[1]{\figurename~\ref{#1}}

and use it instead of \ref for referencing figures.

[dmt]

oops, noticed bad timing on my post here, edited and will try these options. Thanks.

[dmt]

Thanks again Juanjo, worked simply and perfectly!!!