LaTeX forum ⇒ General ⇒ change the name of "List of Figures"

[iperten]

Dear all,

I use the command

\listoffigures 

to add that list in my report. Then, with

\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of figures}

, I add it to the table of contents. Here, it appears as "List of figures", but in the page where figures are listed, the title is "List of Figures".

I want "Figures" to have a lowercase "f".

I tried with

\renewcommand*\listfigurename{List of figures}

(even without *) in the preamble, but it does not work.

I tried to modify the name in the report.cls file, but it does not work either.

Can anyone help me on this?

Thank you.
Cheers,
Mattia.

[gmedina]

Hi,

that is probably because you are loading babel with some option such as english, or similar; in this case, use something like

\addto\captionsenglish{%
  \renewcommand\listfigurename{List of figures}}

Another option would be to write

\renewcommand*\listfigurename{List of figures}

after \begin{document} and before \listoffigures but I recommend using the first alternative.

[iperten]

Dear Gmedina,

thank you! The 2nd alternative worked: the position where I placed it was wrong, but with suggestion now it's fine!

Thanx.

Cheers,
Mattia.