I am using the class scrartcl
to set an article which includes figures. I want the figures to have arbitrary titles, without a "Figure n:" in front of them. According to the KOMA-Script manual, I should put
\renewcommand*{\figureformat}{}
\renewcommand*{\captionformat}{}
in the preamble. This gets rid of the "Figure n", but the colon remains. I am surprised, because a year ago, I set a book using the scrbook
class and used these lines in the preamble to get rid of the "Figure n:" and it worked. Now, however, several distribution updates later, if i rerun PDFLaTeX, the colons reappear. I am using koma-script 2016-122.3.20. I tried uninstalling and re-installing koma-script, to no avail.
Perhaps something else I am doing is interfering. Here is the entire preamble:
\documentclass[letterpaper,11pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{ebgaramond}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage[french,swedish,english]{babel}
\usepackage[autostyle=tryonce,english=british]{csquotes}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\renewcommand*{\figureformat}{}
\renewcommand*{\captionformat}{}
\renewcommand{\topfraction}{1}
\renewcommand{\textfraction}{0.2}
\newenvironment{filmography}{\begin{description}
\setlength{\parskip}{0ex plus 0.5ex minus 0ex}
\setlength{\parsep}{0ex}
\setlength{\itemsep}{0ex plus 0.5ex minus 0ex}
\setlength{\leftmargin}{1pc}
\setlength{\labelwidth}{0pc}
\setlength{\labelsep}{0pc}
\setlength{\rightmargin}{0pc}}{\end{description}}
\usepackage[notes,strict,backend=biber,%
bibencoding=inputenc]{biblatex-chicago}
\addbibresource{hedling-bib.bib}
\begin{document}
The commands I am using to make the figure (at simplest--I often have to use minipages to put more than one figure together) are as follows:
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics{Hedling01}
\caption{Figure 1}
\end{figure}
(Hedling01 is a jpeg.) As you can see, I am really trying to get the figure captioned "Figure n" with no colon (I don't want a figure list and I am not going to change the figures, so I don't need the automatic numbering). If there is some other way of doing this it would solve my immediate problem.