Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Charts not in the List of Figures

[Michael]

Hello everyone,

I am writing my master thesis and I need some help with charts and figures.
In my thesis I have both figures (mainly frameworks with bubbles and arrows, made in Word, saved as .png and then transferred into Latex) and charts (like pie charts, istograms, made with Excel, saved as .png and then transferred into Latex), but I want them to be two different categories.

The problem is that Latex names "Figure 8" what I want to be "Chart 1" (i.e. the first chart that appears in my thesis), and "Figure 8" is automatically included in the List of Figures. How can I have Latex recognizing the difference between my charts and my figures?

If I create a floated environment called 'Chart' I manage to change the name in the caption and have "Chart 8", but still it's not Chart "1" and it's included in the List of Figures.

If this helps: I am using a minipage environment with landscape orientation, and I have 3 charts aligned that I would like to be named "Chart 1", "Chart 2" and "Chart 3".

Many thanks for your help!

Michael

[sommerfee]

How can I have Latex recognizing the difference between my charts and my figures?

Just define a new floating environment called "chart" and use this one for charts. You can either use \DeclareCaptionType{chart} by the caption package, or \newfloat by the float package, or -whatever- by the trivfloat package, or \DeclareNewFloat by the floatrow package, or...

[localghost]

[…] In my thesis I have both figures (mainly frameworks with bubbles and arrows, made in Word, saved as .png and then transferred into Latex) and charts (like pie charts, istograms, made with Excel, saved as .png and then transferred into Latex) […]

How ugly. Not very good for the consistency of your document.

[…] The problem is that Latex names "Figure 8" what I want to be "Chart 1" (i.e. the first chart that appears in my thesis), and "Figure 8" is automatically included in the List of Figures. How can I have Latex recognizing the difference between my charts and my figures? […]

Use the caption package to declare a new float environment as shown in the code below. The figure comes from my archive. The pie chart was taken from the tikZ Example Gallery.

[…] If I create a floated environment called 'Chart' I manage to change the name in the caption and have "Chart 8", but still it's not Chart "1" and it's included in the List of Figures. […]

Would be interesting how you did that to make the problem comprehensible.

[…] If this helps: I am using a minipage environment with landscape orientation, and I have 3 charts aligned that I would like to be named "Chart 1", "Chart 2" and "Chart 3". […]

No, it doesn't help. A minimal example would be much more helpful. But the code below might give some inspiration. It is compilable as is. The output is in the attachment.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[includeheadfoot,margin=3cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf,tableposition=top]{caption}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{automata,positioning,shapes.geometric}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\DeclareCaptionType[fileext=loc]{chart}[Chart][List of Charts]

\newcommand{\slice}[4]{%
  \pgfmathparse{0.5*#1+0.5*#2}
  \let\midangle\pgfmathresult
  \draw[thick,fill=black!10] (0,0) -- (#1:1) arc (#1:#2:1) -- cycle;  % slice
  \node[label=\midangle:#4] at (\midangle:1) {};                      % outer label
  \pgfmathparse{min((#2-#1-10)/110*(-0.3),0)}                         % inner label
  \let\temp\pgfmathresult
  \pgfmathparse{max(\temp,-0.5) + 0.8}
  \let\innerpos\pgfmathresult
  \node at (\midangle:\innerpos) {#3};
}

\begin{document}
  \blindtext
	
  \begin{figure}[!ht]
    \centering
    \begin{tikzpicture}[%
      ->,
      shorten >=2pt,
      >=stealth,
      auto,
      node distance=1cm,
      noname/.style={%
        ellipse,
        minimum width=5em,
        minimum height=3em,
        draw
      }
    ]
      \node[noname] (1)                                             {1};
      \node[noname] (2) [below=of 1]                                {2};
      \node[noname] (4) [node distance=1cm and 3mm,below left=of 2] {4};
      \node[noname] (3) [left=of 4]                                 {3};
      \node[noname] (5) [below=of 4]                                {5};
      \node[noname] (6) [node distance=2cm,right=of 5]              {6};

      \path (1) edge                   node       {a} (2)
            (2) edge                   node[swap] {b} (3)
            (2) edge                   node       {c} (4)
            (2) edge                   node       {d} (6)
            (3) edge                   node       {f} (5)
            (4) edge                   node       {g} (5)
            (5) edge [bend right=20pt] node[swap] {h} (2);
    \end{tikzpicture}
    \caption{Dummy figure}\label{fig:dummy}
  \end{figure}
	
  \blindtext[3]

  \begin{chart}[!ht]
    \centering
    \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=3,thick]
      \newcounter{a}
      \newcounter{b}
      \foreach \p/\t in {20/type A, 4/type B, 11/type C,49/type D, 16/other}
      {
        \setcounter{a}{\value{b}}
        \addtocounter{b}{\p}
        \slice{\thea/100*360}{\theb/100*360}{\p\%}{\t}
      }
    \end{tikzpicture}
    \caption{Dummy chart}\label{cht:dummy}
  \end{chart}
	
  \blindtext

  \listoffigures
  \listofcharts
\end{document}

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten