Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ \Ref and \label format

[kees]

Hi all,

How can I change the numbering of my figures from "chapternr.sectionnr.figurenr" to simply "chapternr.figurenr"?
This cannot be very difficult. I have been googling for a while, but did not find a solution.
Thanks in advance!

[Keta]

What document class are you using? If I'm not mistaken, report and book classes both produce the numbering you want.

Anyway, check the following. It should renew the print format of the figure counter:

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\renewcommand{\thefigure}{\arabic{chapter}.\arabic{figure}}

If the figure counter is correctly defined, it will restart after each chapter.

For customizing figure and table captions, take a look at the caption package.

[localghost]

[...] How can I change the numbering of my figures from "chapternr.sectionnr.figurenr" to simply "chapternr.figurenr"? [...]

This is not the default setting of chapter based classes. Please provide a minimal working example (MWE) that reproduces this behaviour.

Best regards
Thorsten

[aron.wahlberg]

I have a similar problem with tables. The twist is that when I refer to my table in the text (using \ref{mytable}), I get the format chapternumber.sectionnumber, while the numbering by the \caption gives chapternumber.tablenumber. I want the latter in both cases. How to fix this?

The way it is now, I get the same number for different tables as long as they are in the same section, when I refer to them using \ref{mytable}.

I've tried with \renewcommand but that only changes the number by \caption, the number by \ref{} remains unchanged.

Aron

[aron.wahlberg]

My problem resolved when i put the label inside the caption:

\caption{Blabla. \label{myTable}}

Aron

[Keta]

My problem resolved when i put the label inside the caption:

\caption{Blabla. \label{myTable}}

Aron

Hi Aron,

What you were probably doing is putting the \label command before the caption. You don't need to write the label inside the caption, but after the caption:

\caption{Caption text.}
\label{mytable}