When using bookdown (single document), figures are numbered automatically as:
Figure 1 Text of figure caption.
In chemistry, the convention is to label main Figures as:
Figure 1. Text of figure caption.
and for the supporting information document:
Figure S1. Text of figure caption.
Also in the figure reference in the text we need:
...as can be seen in Figure 1, ...
so the reference text should not be bold.
How can i make bookdown (or rmarkdown) produce figure and table captions like so: "Figure S1. Some text." and "Table S1. Some text." ?
I need this to be in MS Word format.
So far i tried to modify the _bookdown.yml document as follows:
language:
label:
fig: "**Figure S**"
tab: "**Table S**"
This gives: Figure S1 Some text... and the inline reference when using:
Figure S\@ref(fig:Xray)
is Figure S1 which is ok.
Here is a minimal example:
---
title: Supporting Information
subtitle: "Iron(I) etc"
author: "Some people here"
abstract: "Added the addresses here since there is no abstract in the SI"
output:
bookdown::word_document2:
fig_caption: yes
toc: yes
toc_depth: 1
---
## Reaction of etc.
Some text (Figure S\@ref(fig:Xray)). Some text followed by a figure:
```{r Xray, fig.cap="Single-crystal X-ray structure of some text", echo=FALSE}
plot(cars)
```
Some text etc. followed by a table:
```{r DipUVvis, echo=FALSE, tab.cap="Table caption"}
df<-data.frame(Entry=c('AMM 51$3^a$','AMM 52^*a*^'),
Precat=c('[FeBr~2~(dpbz)~2~] (4.00)','[FeBr~2~(dpbz)~2~]
(2.00)'))
kable(head(df), format = "markdown")
```
The code above produces Figure S1 in the figure caption but NOT Figure S1. (Note it is all bold and a full stop in the end).
To my knowledge, you cannot control figure/table captions to do what you want with rmarkdown/bookdown. You can use the package captioner to achieve it, with a catch: it works fine with rmarkdown outputs, but you'll need to do post-processing with bookdown outputs. Here is the Rmd file that produces your desired caption style:
---
title: Supporting Information
subtitle: "Iron(I) etc"
author: "Some people here"
abstract: "Added the addresses here since there is no abstract in the SI"
output:
word_document:
fig_caption: yes
---
```{r, include=F}
library(captioner)
tables <- captioner(prefix = "Table S", suffix = ". ", style="b", style_prefix=TRUE, auto_space = FALSE)
figures <- captioner(prefix = "Figure S", suffix = ". ", style="b", style_prefix=TRUE, auto_space = FALSE)
figures("Xray1", "Single-crystal X-ray structure of some text (1)", display=FALSE)
figures("Xray2", "Single-crystal X-ray structure of some text (2)", display=FALSE)
figures("Xray3", "Single-crystal X-ray structure of some text (3)", display=FALSE)
```
## Reaction of etc.
Some text. Some text followed by `r figures("Xray1", display="cite")`, which is the same figure as `r figures("Xray3", display="cite")` but comes after `r figures("Xray2", display="cite")`.
```{r Xray, fig.cap=figures("Xray1"), echo=FALSE}
plot(cars)
```
```{r Xray2, fig.cap=figures("Xray2"), echo=FALSE}
plot(cars)
```
```{r Xray3, fig.cap=figures("Xray3"), echo=FALSE}
plot(cars)
```
Some text etc. followed by `r tables("tab-DipUVvis", display="cite")`:
```{r DipUVvis, echo=FALSE}
df<-data.frame(Entry=c('AMM 51$3^a$','AMM 52^*a*^'),
Precat=c('[FeBr~2~(dpbz)~2~] (4.00)','[FeBr~2~(dpbz)~2~]
(2.00)'))
knitr::kable(head(df), caption=tables("tab-DipUVvis", "Table Caption"))
```
However, if you switch to use bookdown::word_document2 output, the figure caption becomes "Figure 1: Figure S1. ...". I haven't found a way to suppress "Figure 1:" and have to do post-processing in my output to search and replace all "Figure ?:" with "".