On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 06:10:52PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
> > 3) Caption style. By default Latex gives "Figure 1: A nice picture" but I
> > want "Figure 1. A nice picture". I read
> > http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/floats/caption.html
> > which works for figures but not for tables: for tables it should be
> > "Table 1. Some statistics" but the word "Table" is replaced with the word
> > "Figure".
>
> \renewcommand\thetable[2][]{\arabic{table}. #1}
This is a hack. A clean way to do this is using caption2.sty:
\usepackage{caption2}
\renewcommand{\captionlabeldelim}{.}