Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ long caption in list of figures and tables

[gardener_2003]

Can anyone help out of this configuring the \listoffigures and \listoftables command

Say if I have a figure with long captions and another figure with short one, they appears as
(1.1 and 1.2 long caption, even longer than text width.
1.3 short caption, correctly displayed.)

[left edge----------------------------------------right edge]
list of figures
1.1 **************************************************************
1.2 **************************************************************
1.3 ******* ..................................................4

What I want is
[left edge----------------------------------------right edge]
1.1 **************************************************************
****************************.....................................1
1.2 **************************************************************
********************************...............................2
1.3 ******* ................................................... 4

[Frits]

Please provide a minimal working example. I always thought that the line breaking in these lists was done automatically.

[cgnieder]

Hi gardener_2003,

Welcome to the LaTeX community!

Please provide a minimal working example. I always thought that the line breaking in these lists was done automatically.

Frits is right: we need to see a minimal working example, that is compilable code starting with \documentclass and ending with \end{document} showing the erroneous behavior. The layout of the lists of figures and tables is possibly influenced by the document class you're using, maybe also by packages you've included.

Regards

[gardener_2003]

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside]{report}
\usepackage{warwickthesis}  % a thesis package
\usepackage{setspace}       % control line spacing
\usepackage{subfigure}
\usepackage[draft]{graphicx}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{amstext}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{gensymb}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\usepackage{comment}
\usepackage{overpic}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true,citecolor=blue]{hyperref}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{aastex_hack}
\usepackage[flushleft]{threeparttable}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\bibstyle{aa}
\bibpunct{(}{)}{;}{a}{}{,}

\pagenumbering{roman} %! Begins roman numerals start from page i.
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables

This is what I used to generated the list of figures and tables. The Table of Contents are alright. but the list of tables and figures just go beyond the page limit

In the "warwickthesis.sty" file they are defined alike.

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\renewcommand\listoftables{%
    \if@twocolumn
      \@restonecoltrue\onecolumn
    \else
      \@restonecolfalse
    \fi
    \chapter*{\listtablename
      \@mkboth{\uppercase{\listtablename}}{\uppercase{\listtablename}}}%
    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\listtablename}
    \@starttoc{lot}%
    \if@restonecol\twocolumn\fi
    }
\renewcommand\listoffigures{%
    \if@twocolumn
      \@restonecoltrue\onecolumn
    \else
      \@restonecolfalse
    \fi
    \chapter*{\listfigurename
      \@mkboth{\uppercase{\listfigurename}}%
              {\uppercase{\listfigurename}}}%
    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\listfigurename}
    \@starttoc{lof}%
    \if@restonecol\twocolumn\fi
    }
\renewcommand\tableofcontents{%
    \if@twocolumn
      \@restonecoltrue\onecolumn
    \else
      \@restonecolfalse
    \fi
    \chapter*{\contentsname
        \@mkboth{\uppercase{\contentsname}}{\uppercase{\contentsname}}}%
    \@starttoc{toc}%
    \if@restonecol\twocolumn\fi
    }

[cgnieder]

Unfortunately your example is no minimal working example! I quote myself:

[...] compilable code starting with \documentclass and ending with \end{document} showing the erroneous behavior. [...]

If I strip down what you posted and add the necessary commands like \begin{document} I get this:

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{warwickthesis}  % a thesis package
% \usepackage{aastex_hack} % does this influence the list? I guess not
% but I can't know since this package is not part of a standard TeX
% distribution

\begin{document}

\listoffigures
\listoftables

\begin{table}
 an example table with a caption
 \caption{the caption of the table}
\end{table}

\begin{figure}
 an example figure with a caption
 \caption{the caption of the figure}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

Can you please extend this to show the behavior? Also, in order to enable us to compile the code you need to either attach warwickthesis.sty to your next post or give us a link where we can download it. I don't know if aastex_hack is important for the example but if it is please also attach aastex_hack.sty.

Regards