[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 119738] Image caption, inconsistency: caption for images is now "figure" and no longer "illustration"

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119738

--- Comment #7 from Gerhard Weydt <gerhard.weydt@t-online.de> ---
For other languages this is an even more complicated problem. In German, for
example, figure and illustration are translated with the same expression
"Abbildung". The result is that an image caption inserted with version 6.1 gets
no number at all. The same happens in Dutch with "Aafbeeldingen". You have to
dig deep to understand what is going wrong.
French and Italian have two different translations, so they have "only" the
same problem as english texts.
Now, in contrast to Heiko's statement in comment #4, it is a problem to know
which of the two styles is the correct one, as they have the same name. And for
both of them no number is provided (tested in German only)!
If you have an old document with many illustrations - as in my case the LibO
handbook "First Steps" I'm working on - you have to change all captions to the
new default, and I couldn't find another way to do that than deleting the
caption and settin a new. Keeping the old style would be dangerous, because the
next person working with the document wil have the same problem.
I fear that these problems will happen to a good many people, and many will not
even know what is wrong because they will not be able to find out the reason.
This is a desastrous effect for LibreOffice!
I think that on opening a document with captions in the old style there should
be a warning message with the choice to convert to the new style.

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