Graphics, Figures & Tables

lisa · Post by **lisa** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:43 pm

hello, i am also a newby,
my figure format comes up as Figure 1.1: and i would like this changed to Figure 1.1. so i would like to remove the : and replace it with a . how do i do this?

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Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:04 pm

Hi Lisa,

welcome to the board!
A solution depends on the document class you are using. Which one do you use?
I recommend to use the caption package, it provides a lot of features to customize captions and is very well documented, see its documentation, also for setting the dot.

Stefan

allevo · Post by **allevo** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:08 pm

hi!!
this?!?!?
http://dcwww.camd.dtu.dk/~schiotz/comp/ ... l#figlabel

lisa · Post by **lisa** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:27 pm

ok so i found document class:

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\documentclass[12pt,oneside]{report}

then after that it says:

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\usepackage{a4,fancyhdr}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
backref,
colorlinks=true,
linkcolor=black,
citecolor=black,
filecolor=black,
urlcolor=black,
pdfstartview=FitH}

so is this good / bad?? i really dont have a clue, to get this captions document class thingy do i remove the one i have? or is it that easy? (im guessing not!)

Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:32 pm

Hi Lisa,

try

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\usepackage[labelsep=period]{caption}

Stefan

lisa · Post by **lisa** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:34 pm

allevo wrote:hi!!
this?!?!?
http://dcwww.camd.dtu.dk/~schiotz/comp/ ... l#figlabel

where in the figure code do i put this?

lisa · Post by **lisa** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:36 pm

Stefan_K wrote:Hi Lisa,

try
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\usepackage[labelsep=period]{caption}
Stefan

Stefan,
where do i put this code? in the maintex? do i replace it with the other "usepackage"s i listed above?

Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:45 pm

Just add it to the other \usepackage-lines.

Stefan

lisa · Post by **lisa** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:04 pm

when i run it to transfer it to a PDF it says i need to install a new item but it does not allow me to enter the name of this user package

thanks for all the help

Post by **localghost** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:17 pm

lisa wrote:when i run it to transfer it to a PDF it says i need to install a new item but it does not allow me to enter the name of this user package [...]

Please be more precise and tell us the exact error message. Concerning the packages you are loading and other relevant things you should take a look at l2tabu to avoid the biggest sins.

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

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