[Tex/LaTex] Remove dot-after-number in figure captions while keeping the dot in chapter/section captions

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In my document (using KOMAScript and babel[ngerman]) I have various figures which get captions like "Abbildung 1: …".

However, as soon as I add a \appendix to the document all those captions change to "Abbildung 1.: …" (dot in front of the colon). Apparently this is a feature – I want to disable it anyway!

Using pointlessnumbers in the \documentclass options I can get rid of this dott – but then I also lose the dot in chapter/section numbers which I want to keep since "1. Introduction" looks much better than just "1 Introduction".

Best Answer

Instead of using the pointlessnumbers class option, remove \autodot from the definition of \figureformat.

\documentclass{scrreprt}

\renewcommand*{\figureformat}{%
  \figurename~\thefigure%
%  \autodot% DELETED
}

\begin{document}

\chapter{bla}

\section{blubb}

\begin{figure}
\centering
\rule{1cm}{1cm}
\caption{A figure}
\end{figure}

\appendix

\chapter{foo}

\section{bar}

\end{document}
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