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I'm using this template to write my report. I'm trying to add a listoffigures so I added those lines in the .cls file:

\newlength{\lofsep} 
\setlength\lofsep{2pc}

\contentsmargin{0cm}
\titlecontents{figure}[\lofsep]
  {\addvspace{4pt}\color{color1}\bfseries\sffamily}
  {\contentslabel[\thecontentslabel]{\lofsep}}
  {}
  {\ \titlerule*[.5pc]{.}\ \thecontentspage}
  []

… and it works fine !

The thing is that I want my caption to be in two parts :

  • The actual caption
  • The author credit

It would be nice if I could get something like that :

1 My caption - John Smith ........................... 5

OR

1 My caption ................................................. 5

John Smith

because for now it's just :

1 My caption - John Smith ............................. 5

and it's not really readable.

So I thought I could split the \contentslabel in \tiltecontents but it appears that \contentslabel is not given in \tiltecontents.

Hope it's clear enough, thanks a lot !

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  • Welcome to the site! Could you provide some information on how you would mark it up in the code; for example, do you want to use \caption[\author{<author name>}-\mycapt{Caption}]{Actual caption}... – cmhughes Jul 30 '14 at 18:36
  • Yes ! That solution would be really nice ! I thought about it but I really don't know where to start. I'm just beginning with those "advanced LaTeX technics" ! – Fritzip Jul 31 '14 at 07:47
  • Does anyone has some starting points/websites to look at ? Thanks – Fritzip Aug 11 '14 at 10:25

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Here's a solution that defines the command \mycaption that has the following syntax

\mycaption[author=<name>,toc=<caption for toc>]{<caption>}

The default value for <author> is Friedrich, and the default value for the <toc> key is <caption>. For a very thorough tutorial on the keyval package see the documentation and How to create a command with key values?, for example.

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You might prefer to renew the caption command, but you'd have to be careful if you were going to load either the caption or hyperref packages, which is why I left it alone.

% arara: pdflatex
% arara: pdflatex
% !arara: indent: {overwrite: yes}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{keyval}% http://ctan.org/pkg/keyval

\makeatletter
% ========= KEY DEFINITIONS =========
\define@key{mycaption}{toc}{\def\friedrich@toc{#1}}
\define@key{mycaption}{author}{\def\friedrich@author{#1}}
% ========= KEY DEFAULTS =========
\setkeys{mycaption}{toc={},author=Friedrich}%
% ========= MYCAPTION COMMAND  =========
\newcommand{\mycaption}[2][]{%
    \ifx\\#1\\% check if #1 is empty
        \caption{#2} % just a regular caption
    \else
        \setkeys{mycaption}{#1}% Set new keys
        \ifx\friedrich@toc\empty
            \def\friedrich@toc{#2}
        \fi
        \caption[{\bfseries\friedrich@toc}-{\itshape\friedrich@author}]{#2}%
    \fi
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\listoffigures
\begin{figure}[!htp]
    \mycaption[toc=caption for toc,author=Fried]{actual caption}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[!htp]
    \mycaption[toc=caption for toc (note the default author)]{actual caption}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[!htp]
    \mycaption[author=cmh]{actual caption (used in toc and caption)}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[!htp]
    \mycaption{actual caption (no keys specified)}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[!htp]
  \mycaption[toc={group the caption to use $=$}]{actual caption (used in toc and caption)}
\end{figure}

\end{document}
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