Lyx IEEE Transactions Figure Label Nonstandard

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I am using the IEEE transactions template in lyx and I noticed on the figures instead of saying "Fig.1" or "Fig. 2", the figures are labeled as "Figure 1." or "Figure 2."

I looked at the most recent publications from this journal and the correct method is Fig., not Figure as lyx is outputting.

I am wondering what could be wrong and what I should try. I already went to Document-->Settings-->Document class and double checked it is set to "IEEE Transactions" and Custom: journal.

Take a look at this http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/113459/ieeetran-caption-question — percusse, Nov 13 '14 at 23:51
@percusse, I didn't see how that was helpful. Which part particularly? — Veridian, Nov 14 '14 at 00:52

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

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Another solution via @Werner:

Make sure that you also remove the use of babel in your preamble. That is, under Document > Settings... > Language, select None in terms of the language package to use:

See this answer for more information.

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answered Dec 03 '14 at 19:19

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 14 '14 at 00:00

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ieeetran.cls has

\def\figurename{Fig.}
\def\tablename{TABLE}
\@IEEEcompsocconfonly{\def\figurename{Figure}}

so should be using Fig. except in the IEEE comp soc conf setting. You can always add

\renewcommand\figurename{Fig.}

to set it back.

answered Nov 14 '14 at 00:00

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I have this in my lyx preample, and it shows Figure 1. still % for subfigures/subtables \usepackage[caption=false,font=footnotesize]{subfig} %\renewcommand\figurename{Fig.} I also tried commenting out that first line, but that doesn't work either. – Veridian Nov 14 '14 at 00:50

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

I had to add the following to the preample and it worked correctly:

\addto\captionsenglish{\renewcommand{\figurename}{Fig.}}

I referenced this answer: Change caption name of figures

I tried following David Carlisle's suggestions of adding \renewcommand\figurename{Fig.} but that actually didn't work regardless of where I place it in the preamble. It also caused Lyx to show error messages when I tried compiling to a PDF.

Lyx IEEE Transactions Figure Label Nonstandard

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