Change the symbol after #number in figure/table caption

Question

This is slightly similar to the question about renaming the figure caption (answered here), but now I want to change the symbol appearing right after the number, e.g.:

Figure 1: ... into Figure 1. ....

Table 1: ... into Table 1. ....

I use the caption package, but no babel (although all approaches are welcome).

It's hard to say without seeing a full example document, but the most obvious way would be with the labelsep option to the caption package: \usepackage[labelsep=period]{caption}, since you're using that. See the documentation. If that doesn't work for you, please post a complete minimal working example. — frabjous, May 31 '22 at 19:24
Perfect! Worked like a charm. Maybe add an answer to mark it? — Maverick, May 31 '22 at 19:34

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 31 '22 at 20:22

As mentioned in the comments, you can set the punctuation that appears after the figure or table number using the caption package's labelsep option. E.g., to get a period:

\usepackage[labelsep=period]{caption}

See the caption package documentation, page 6.

Change the symbol after #number in figure/table caption

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