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Change caption name of figures
How to change the name of document elements like “Figure”, “Contents”, “Bibliography” etc.?

I'm using the book class in my document and I created an abstract using this piece of code:

\newenvironment{abstract}%
    {\cleardoublepage\thispagestyle{empty}\null\vfill\begin{center}%
    \bfseries\abstractname\end{center}
    {\vfill\null}

Now I would like to change \abstractname. I tried \renewcommand{\abstractname}{Name}, but it didn't work.

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Mazzy
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    "It didn't worked" isn't very informative, but a) The book class doesn't define \abstractname, so you'll have to do it using \newcommand instead of \renewcommand b) if you did that already, the problem might be your use of the babel package; see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/17489/change-caption-name-of-figures – lockstep Nov 16 '12 at 10:03
  • Vote to reopen, see http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/2881/same-disease-different-symptoms – Charles Stewart Nov 16 '12 at 11:31
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    See also http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82993/how-to-change-the-name-of-document-elements-like-figure-contents-bibliogr – Stephen Nov 16 '12 at 19:51

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