General ⇒ Another listoffigures & tables format issue

[legoton]

okay for my thesis, the grad school wants the list of figures to have the format:

Figure 1.1 Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah...........................................3

So really all I need to know is how to add the "Figure" in front of the figure number.

They also have this format for the list of tables entry. I'm assuming the solution for one is the solution for the other.


I'd expect this should be trivial, but I'm stumped.

Any thoughts?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi legoton,

the tocloft package provides features helping to achieve that.

Stefan

[legoton]

Thanks Stefan. I know that would be the right answer if I didn't have a deadline from the grad school. Unfortunately, I'm really time crunched for dinking with a new package. I've been able to get my lof to look like:

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Figure 2.1 The traffic monitoring cameras routinely record information from
        one or more moving objects ......................................................................... 6

which is almost right. but the indent doesn't line up right line to line. Any suggestion on how to adjust the indent on that second line?

I'm using this to make the mods, but it's not adjusting the figure number indent obviously.

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{\renewcommand*\numberline[1]{Figure\,#1\space}
\makeatletter
\listoffigures}

Thanks,
Legoton

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Legoton,

you could redefine \l@figure, this could be a start:

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\makeatletter
\renewcommand*\l@figure{\@dottedtocline{1}{0em}{3.6em}}
\makeatother

Stefan

[legoton]

Stefan,

That looks like a winner to me. I agree it's not the right way, but it's a solution.
Thanks. I'll use tocloft next time.

-Legoton