On 3 Feb 2011, at 16:54, Richard Heck wrote:
> Oh, sorry, I didn't see that you want the caption but not the label.
>
> If that's what you want, then you will have to do something like redefine the
> \@makecaption macro that is used to set the caption. I tried redefining
> \fnum@figure to do nothing, but that leaves the ":" in front of the caption.
> Here's the definition from article.cls:
>
> \long\def\@makecaption#1#2{%
> \vskip\abovecaptionskip
> \sbox\@tempboxa{#1: #2}%
> \ifdim \wd\@tempboxa >\hsize
> #1: #2\par
> \else
> \global \@minipagefalse
> \hb@xt@\hsize{\hfil\box\@tempboxa\hfil}%
> \fi
> \vskip\belowcaptionskip}
>
> #1 is what you don't want. If you never want it, then you can just replace
> "#1: #2" with "#2" and be done with it. If you want it in some cases but not
> others, that is more complicated.
Thanks, I'll experiment with this. Possibly worth considering some option for
this in LyX at some point?
I also notice a lot of people want to have images with captions which don't act
as floats.
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