Changing figure caption name with babel in LaTeX

[mstankie]

When one specifies document language and redefines figure caption name, converting Markdown to LaTeX in standalone mode, i.e:

$ pandoc -V lang=pl -M fignos-caption-name=Ilustracja -s -o doc.tex

the filter adds the following to the LaTeX document header:

%%% pandoc-fignos: required package
    \usepackage{caption}

    %% pandoc-fignos: environment to disable figure caption prefixes
    \makeatletter
    \newcounter{figno}
    \newenvironment{fignos:no-prefix-figure-caption}{
      \caption@ifcompatibility{}{
        \let\oldthefigure\thefigure
        \let\oldtheHfigure\theHfigure
        \renewcommand{\thefigure}{figno:\thefigno}
        \renewcommand{\theHfigure}{figno:\thefigno}
        \stepcounter{figno}
        \captionsetup{labelformat=empty}
      }
    }{
      \caption@ifcompatibility{}{
        \captionsetup{labelformat=default}
        \let\thefigure\oldthefigure
        \let\theHfigure\oldtheHfigure
        \addtocounter{figure}{-1}
      }
    }
    \makeatother

    % pandoc-fignos: change the caption name
    \renewcommand{\figurename}{Ilustracja}

But the babel package, added to enable language (requested by -V lang=pl), will overwrite the \renewcommand{\figurename}{Ilustracja}, so the babel-default figure caption names will appear in the final PDF document.

As per Gonzalo Medina's comment (May 5, 2011 at 18:17) to the following answer: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/17490/95312, it would be more robust to use \usepackage[figurename=<the name provided in fignos-caption-name metadata>]{caption} instead of \renewcommand{\figurename}{<the name provided in fignos-caption-name metadata>}.