General ⇒ amsbook - problems when printing \listoffigures and \listoft

[sawakuchig]

I am modifying the amsbook defaults as:
\renewcommand{\thefigure}{Figure \thechapter.\arabic{figure}}
\renewcommand{\thetable}{Table \thechapter.\arabic{table}}

In the text it appears to be fine but when I print the \listoftables and \listoffigures the figure label (e.g. Figure 1.10) overlaps its caption (see file).
Anyone knows how to fix it?

Thanks,

Gabriel

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[Ted]

I am modifying the amsbook defaults as:
\renewcommand{\thefigure}{Figure \thechapter.\arabic{figure}}

Consult varioref:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Ca ... ioref.html

This is a useful package that is included with every LaTeX distribution. Its documentation:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/ ... rioref.pdf

With it, you can do this:

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\usepackage{varioref}
\renewcommand{\thefigure}{\thechapter.\arabic{figure}}
\labelformat{figure}{Figure~#1}

This way, your \ref's will have "Figure" included but the list of figures will omit all of the "Figure" parts but include the chapter stuff.

You may want to consider using hyperref's autoref. It will handle adding the "Figure" and "Table" for you. See this post for more details about autoref (and labelformat).