caption.sty error: labeldelim undefined

Latex custom class, provided in http://code.google.com/p/italus/, for academic 
thesis production employs the caption.sty package.

Up to latex-makefile-2.2.0-rc6 there was no problem with the caption.sty 
package. I am using Linux Ubuntu 10.04 with the standard latex packages 
(installed through the apt-get system).

The attached file contains all the class and packages, as well example latex 
files. Simply extract and run make to see the problem. Also within this file is 
the makefile for the rc6 release (file Makefile_rc6), which reports no problem 
and builds the final pdf correctly. It also includes a custom Makefile.ini to 
work with this example.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by carbr...@gmail.com on 2 Mar 2011 at 7:21

Attachments:

ExemploTeseITA.tar.gz

The error is present whether using Makefile rc6 or not.  The bug is in rc6, 
which was failing to stop when there was a legitimate error.

So, labeldelim being undefined is still a problem.  Note that when rc6 built 
your file, it failed to handle the bibliography correctly or to build a correct 
document in general.  That's why the error is reported correctly in more recent 
revisions of the makefile, and you'll have to fix it if you want your document 
to build properly.

You'll note that just running

pdflatex ExemploTeseITA

Causes an error to be given, and compilation cannot proceed.  That is not the 
fault of the makefile, but of the document.

The problem is that in ita.cls, the caption package is used with the option

[labeldelim=\ --]

But the caption package does not understand that option (it is deprecated).  
So, instead of using labeldelim, you'll need to edit the .cls file to use a 
combination of 

\DeclareCaptionLabelFormat{myformat}{#1 --#2}

Then, inside of your figure environment, or wherever you define a caption, you 
would use

\captionsetup{myformat}

So, the way to fix the ita.cls file is included in the attached patch, which 
defines a "dashlabel" labelformat, which you can use with 
\captionsetup{dashlabel}.  I hope it helps.

Original comment by shiblon on 15 Mar 2011 at 2:29

Changed state: Invalid

Attachments:

ita.cls.patch

yochju / latex-makefile

caption.sty error: labeldelim undefined #116