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localghost wrote:It's preferable to use the \centering command instead of the center environment in order to avoid additional vertical space (which is mostly unwanted in cases like this). This would also evade the problem you described here.

Thanks for advice. I'll give it a try and compare.

Bingo and thanks! My centering command had displaced the label from the caption.

Before (wrong):
\begin{table}[htbp]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=5in]{t-name.pdf}
\linespread{1}
\caption{This is the caption}
\end{center}
\label{t-name}
\end{table}

After (fixed!):
\begin{table}[htbp ...

This is strange.

I've set up references to show \section.\table for all figures and tables with:

\numberwithin{table}{section}%for tables

I've got Table 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 ... 17.1, 17.2 etc. All tables are numbered correctly and all \ref{t-name} in the body text work (shows 2.1, 3.1 ...

Thanks for this. Next time I'll make the example compilable as per minimal working example.

The numbers were appearing because I had numbers in the variables. It would spit out the numbered variables, where defined, as a row of numbers and values. In the body text, the numbered variables just show ...

Ok thanks. I think I understand what a minimal example is now and will work on making one. I'm on the right track, but will make an isolated file to see better.

Am I limited to nine "\newcommand" s in a row? Here's the list with only the variables and definitions changed:

% FILL IN THE FIELDS ...

Hi Thorsten,

Thanks for welcoming me. I'm struggling a little with learning latex and couldn't describe the way in which it output my first example. Sometimes it output the variable I defined as a text string, and sometimes it simply output a number instead of my text string (maybe after the ninth ...

Hello,

I'd like to be able to set strings as commands at the top of a doc, so that one can enter all the pertinent info at the top of the doc and then insert those strings into a preformatted document.

EG:

\newcommand{\Author}{pgeezer}

This document was created by \Author .

and have "pgeezer ...