Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ figure caption with only the number

[christina_t]

Hi all,

I have a file with 600 images, divided in chapters, and I would like to be able for one chapter (below 'catalog') to only put the number of the figure in the caption, with the description being in the list of figures. I don't want 'Fig. 1', only '1'. However, I would like this to be applied only for one chapter, and not in all of the chapters. Is that possible?

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside]{report}

\usepackage{setspace}

\usepackage[dvipdfm]{graphicx}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{epsf}
\usepackage{supertabular}
\usepackage{picins}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{semtrans}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{threeparttable}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{synttree}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage{hvfloat}
\usepackage{sidecap}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{pgf}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary[trees]
\setlength{\baselineskip}{13pt}
\usepackage[top=18mm, bottom=18mm, left=15mm, right=15mm]{geometry} 
\pagestyle{fancy}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{hyperref}


\begin{document}

\tableofcontents
\newpage
\listoffigures
\newpage
\listoftables

\chapter{Introduction}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\fancyhead[CE]{\leftmark}
\fancyhead[CO]{\rightmark}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\input{intro}


\chapter[Catalog]{Catalog}
\fancyhead[LE]{The catalogue}
\fancyhead[RO]{}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\input{catalogue1}


\end{document}

and an example from the catalog file regarding a figure

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\begin{minipage}{5cm}
\includegraphics[scale=0.55]{pic1}
\caption[Drawing of blah]{}
\end{minipage}

but this gives me 'Fig.1:', while I would only want '1'

Many thanks in advance
Christina

[cgnieder]

You can use the caption package to define a caption setup for this, see the caption manual section 4 (Own Enhancements).

In the example below I used \captionof since \caption won't work in a {minipage} alone.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{caption}
\DeclareCaptionFormat{empty}{#1}
\renewcommand*\figurename{Fig.}

\usepackage{mwe}% for the example image

\begin{document}
\listoffigures

\section{Bla}
\captionsetup{format=empty}
\begin{minipage}{5cm}
 \includegraphics[width=5cm]{example-image-a}
 \captionof{figure}{Drawing of blah}
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{5cm}
 \includegraphics[width=5cm]{example-image-b}
 \captionof{figure}{Drawing of blub}
\end{minipage}

\end{document}

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BTW: you load graphicx twice in your preamble. Also, you shouldn't specify the driver for it unless necessary.

Regards

[christina_t]

Hi and many thanks for the reply. Is there a way to drop the 'fig.' completely and just get its number? I also do not want this for all my 'chapters' but only for one, as there are also pictures in the other chapters. I managed to drop the 'fig.' by putting

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\renewcommand{\figurename}{}
\chapter[Catalog]{Catalog}
\fancyhead[LE]{The catalogue}
\fancyhead[RO]{}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\input{catalogue1}

just before I enter the chapter, but this gives me "4.1:" for chapter 4 pic 1. I would now like to drop the colon... This I have done without using the caption package, because it seems too complicated to change all captions now with \captionof{figure}{blah}, and for some pictures I want a different caption appearing in the text and another in the list of images.

Many thanks again!

[cgnieder]

Several things:

• the reason I proposed the caption package was not for the usage of \captionof. The reason was to use it to define a new caption format. I silently assumed you knew that \caption is only allowed in floating environments such as {figure} and {table} and thought you'd see that I didn't use them in my MWE (minimal working example) and hence needed \captionof there. My proposal also works with \caption!
• I get the feeling you didn't read the caption manual that I linked. You could have read this section there:

  You can define your own caption formats using the command

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  \DeclareCaptionFormat{ name }{ code using #1, #2 and #3 }

  At usage the system replaces #1 with the caption label, #2 with the separator and #3 with the text.
  So the standard format plain is pre-defined by the caption package as

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  \DeclareCaptionFormat{plain}{#1#2#3\par}

• One can invoke \captionsetup{} several times which means one can use one format for one part of the document and other formats for the rest quite easily. Below is an example again, this time without a picture. Please take the time copying it as a test document, compile it, and see what which part of the code does.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{caption}
\DeclareCaptionFormat{empty}{}% a completely invisible caption

\usepackage{mwe}% for the example image

\begin{document}
\listoffigures

\section{Foo}
\captionsetup{format=empty}
\begin{figure}[ht]
 \centering
 \includegraphics[width=5cm]{example-image-a}
 \caption{Drawing of foo}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[ht]
 \centering
 \includegraphics[width=5cm]{example-image-b}
 \caption{Drawing of bar}
\end{figure}

\section{Bar}
\captionsetup{format=plain}% reset to the standard caption format again
\begin{figure}[ht]
 \centering
 \includegraphics[width=5cm]{example-image-a}
 \caption{Drawing of foobar}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[ht]
 \centering
 \includegraphics[width=5cm]{example-image-b}
 \caption{Drawing of baz}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

[christina_t]

Hi Clemens and thanks again for your reply. I managed to do what I wanted with the caption package at last, but I do need to use \captionof since all my figures are in minipage environment. Thanks! In the end I used

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\usepackage{caption}
\DeclareCaptionFormat{empty}{#1}
\renewcommand*\figurename{}

to get what I wanted. Again many thanks!

Christina