Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Subfigures in figures

[kentlion]

Hello,

This is a topic I am revisiting after several months.

It is quite common in engineering and sciences to show a figure with subfigures in it. The figure has a caption and a label of its own, e.g. "Figure 2: The various stages of development." This figure in turn contains further figures, optionally with their own labels and captions, e.g. first subfigure may be "(a) Initial", second subfigure may be "(b) Middle", and so on.

This means that the labels of the subfigures reset their numbering within a figure. That numbering should be, of course, customizable.

Also, the List of Figures usually does not list the subfigures.

Further, in the text it is quite common to cross-reference the figure (e.g. "See Figure 2") and subfigures (e.g. "... as shown in Figure 2-a").

Last time I tried this was in OOo 2.4.1 last fall and it appeared to be not easily possible. I raised this topic in the OOo user mailing list and IIRC here as well and discovered that this feature was not present in OOo at that time.

Does anybody know if this is supported or is an added feature in the current version of OOo? If not, is it going to be worthwhile to file it as an issue?

Thanks.

[Johannes_B]

As far as LaTeX is concerned, package subcaption can handle this.

There are other packages as well, but subcaption is the most recent one.