Swedish references to tables and figures should not be capitalized

Kacper_Uminski · October 3, 2024, 7:58pm

When writing a text in swedish, we do not capitalize references to figures and tables when they are in the middle of a sentence. I thus want to ask if it would be possible to set the default ref(supplement) to a lower-case value for figures and tables respectively? This still needs to be possible to overwrite when beginning a sentence with a reference.

xkevio · October 3, 2024, 8:02pm

This should probably be a feature request here: Issues · typst/typst · GitHub.

Kacper_Uminski · October 3, 2024, 8:15pm

Okay, I’ll post one there. It would also be great to have table captions be up top by default for swedish, so I’ll also add that.

Andrew · October 3, 2024, 8:47pm

github.com/typst/typst

Improve support for swedish figures and references

opened 08:33PM - 03 Oct 24 UTC

kacper-uminski

feature request

### Description When writing a text in swedish (i.e with `set text(lang: "sv")`…, we do not capitalize references to figures and tables when they are in the middle of a sentence. I thus want to ask if it would be possible to set the default `ref(supplement)` to a lower-case value for figures and tables respectively? This still needs to be possible to overwrite when beginning a sentence with a reference. Ideally, typst would detect new sentences automagically and use the upper case, but that may not be realistic to implement for now. :) Lastly, tables should have their captions appear on top by default as this is the swedish convention. Normal figures should still have their captions on the bottom. This I have accomplished with a simple show rule: ```typst show figure.where(kind: table): set figure.caption(position: top) ``` Use [this page](https://writing.chalmers.se/chalmers-skrivguide/en-vetenskaplig-rapport/934-2/) from Chalmers University as a reference. (It's in swedish, but translate should work.) ### Use Case This would make writing swedish texts a bit nicer for all of us who need to do that. :)

quachpas · October 4, 2024, 6:01am

I feel like table captions MUST be at the top, regardless of language, but maybe I am wrong. At least, it is also the case in French (and English?)

Walter_H_Schreiber · October 4, 2024, 2:20pm

In English (APA regulations) Table headings on top of the table and short; Explanations go into a footnote below the table.
Figure (image/diagram) headings below. They can be more verbose and contain explanations,