[Tugindia] Creating figure caption in Malayalam

[Josy P. Pullockara]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 18:08, V. Sasi Kumar wrote:
> I am creating a document in Malayalam in which I have to include some
> figures. When I write \begin{figure}, followed by \caption{...}, the
> caption comes as Figure 1: followed by the text I give in Malayalam. I
> want to redefine this so that a suitable Malayalam word comes instead of
> Figure. How can I do that? Can I similarly change for Table also?

Use
\renewcommand{\figurename}{\malayalamfont Chithram}
\renewcommand{\tablename}{\malayalamfont Kattam}

Regards.
-- 
Josy P. Pullockara <josy at ctfd.cmmacs.ernet.in>
National Aerospace Laboratories