LyX ⇒ Reserve more Space for Numbers in LoF

[happygoron]

Hello,

I have a small issue with the LoF in my document. When the figure number goes above a certain number of characters it overlaps with the figure caption. I have been unable to find a way of altering the margins for the figure list. Is there a way to shift the figure captions across by a mm or two?

I have attached an example image from my PDF.

Many thanks in advance for your help,
Neil

[cgnieder]

Hi Neil,

Welcome to the LaTeX community!

How are you creating your LoF? Are you using a standard class or custom class? Du you use packages that modify it… You'll get the fastest and best help if you provide us with a minimal working example, that is a code part that can be copied and compiled as is without having to add \documentclass and that contains all necessary but no unnecessary parts to describe the essential parts of the problem. Have a look at the link for more information.

Regards

[localghost]

Search the forum for solutions by tocloft or take a look at the "Similar Topics" on the bottom of this page (only when logged in). Even in LyX it should be possible to include this package. For details regarding package inclusion consult the LyX help or its documentation.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[cgnieder]

Boff! It completely escaped my attention that the question is posted in the LyX forum (which doesn't disqualify my answer but still...)

[happygoron]

Hi,

Many thanks for your help guys. After a very frustrating morning that led to me having to update miktex and swear a lot as I couldn't get the tocloft commands to work properly I found this page trying to get that working:

http://staff.washington.edu/fox/tex/uwthesis.shtml

On this it gives the following command to edit the width for the section numbers:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand*\l@figure{\setlength\@tempdima{2.3em}%
    \@dottedtocline{1}{1.5em}{\@tempdima}}
\makeatother

Where the 2.3 is default. This worked! Maybe hiding from learning latex properly by using lyx wasn't the greatest idea...

Many thanks for your help nonetheless.

[localghost]

The code you presented turns the same set screw as tocloft does. So if you manage to insert this code into your document preamble, you should also manage to insert the following.

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\usepackage{tocloft}
\setlength{\cftfignumwidth}{4em}    % choose an appropriate length here

[…] Maybe hiding from learning latex properly by using lyx wasn't the greatest idea. […]

Good insight.

[cgnieder]

I recently learned that LyX users can insert TeX code into the document directly with what they call ERT (“evil red text”). I also learned that you can add arbitrary code to the preamble via Document > Settings... > LaTeX Preamble.

Regards