General ⇒ Page, figure and other counters

[gim]

Hi!

I'd like to add pages and figures count to abstract, but found the way only for pages (lastpage package and \pageref{LastPage} in text) and the way to get current object count (standard LaTeX counters).

Could anybody advise, how can I get total figures count at the beginning of my text, or maybe some general way to get total count of different objects (pages, figures, tables, bibliography)?

Thanks in advance

[localghost]

Use the totcount package.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[gim]

Use the totcount package.

As soon as the problem is sorted out, please act according to Section 3 of the Board Rules (last two paragraphs).


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

Thanks for the answer, Thorsten.

totcount works like a charm if figure counter is global. In my case figures are enumerated within chapter (using chngcntr) and totcount return figures count in last section (or I can't tune it to do it in other way). For example, following code showed '0' in PDF document:

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}

\usepackage{chngcntr}
\counterwithin{figure}{section}

\usepackage{totcount}
\regtotcounter{figure}

\begin{document}

\total{figure}

\section{section with figures}

\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
 \caption{figure}
 \label{fig}
\end{figure}

\section{section without figures}
\end{document}

But if I comment 'counterwithin' line, it shows '1'. So I decided to redefine figure environment to increment my own counter and not mess with standard. I've googled a little and found a way to redefine figure. So I get following modification of previous code that enumerate figures within section and count them in right way (hope it work not only in my case):

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}

\usepackage{chngcntr}
\counterwithin{figure}{section}

\usepackage{totcount}
\regtotcounter{figure}

\newtotcounter{foofigure}

\makeatletter
\renewenvironment{figure}[1][\fps@figure]{
  \edef\@tempa{\noexpand\@float{figure}[#1]} 
  \@tempa
  \addtocounter{foofigure}{1}
}{
  \end@float
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\total{figure}

\total{foofigure}

\section{section with figures}

\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
 \caption{figure}
 \label{fig}
\end{figure}

\section{section without figures}
\end{document}

In short to solve my problem it was needed to register new total counter and redefine figure environment to increment it (this code I've placed in preheader.tex with 'usepackage' and other similar stuff):

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\newtotcounter{foofigure}

\makeatletter
\renewenvironment{figure}[1][\fps@figure]{
  \edef\@tempa{\noexpand\@float{figure}[#1]} 
  \@tempa
  \addtocounter{foofigure}{1}
}{
  \end@float
}
\makeatother

Then counter value could be inserted in standard way:

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\total{foofigure}

[sommerfee]

Another option would be using \usepackage[figure]{totalcount} and \totalfigures.

My totalcount package is unfortunately not on CTAN (yet) but could be found here:

http://www.mrunix.de/forums/showpost.ph ... stcount=10

Axel