Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Customize Figure and Table Numbering

[davidfall]

Hi all,

I am running into problem compiling a thesis using a University specific (chapter-based) documentclass. It seems to be default that figures (and tables) are numbered Figure thechapter.thesection.figure

Problem is that I have figures placed directly in the section, i.e.

\chapter{On something}
\begin{figure}
...
\end{figure}
\section{Something specific}
\subsection{Even more in detail}

This renders that the number on the figure will be: Figure 1.0.1; hence I will need to go for either: thechapter.figure (prefered) or contious numbering through the thesis.

I have tried various remedies, e.g:

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

and

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\usepackage{chngcntr}
\counterwithout{figure}{section}

, but it doesn't seem to effect my numbering at all.

Any suggestions?

Cannot easily create a mwe due to documentclass but here is the preamble:

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\RequirePackage[l2tabu,orthodox]{nag} % This package helps prevent you from doing things wrong.

% change doctorate to licentiate if necessary
\documentclass[licentiate,g5paper]{chalmers-thesis}
% All options are; doctorate, licentiate, masters, bachelors, nocover, draft, g5paper,
% and everything the standard report class support.

\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc} % File encoding, you should try to stick to utf8. Change back!!!
\usepackage{microtype} % Magically improves typesetting for pdflatex
\usepackage{subfiles} % Convenient use of subfiles in documents. Using \subfile is optional. See README
\usepackage[swedish, english]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes} % Needed for biblatex
\usepackage[
    bibencoding=latin1,
    citestyle=authoryear,
    natbib=true,
    hyperref=true,
    bibstyle=authoryear,
    maxcitenames=2,
    sorting=nyt,
    dashed=false
]{biblatex}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{hyperref} % Required for in document links and document metadata.
\usepackage{mathtools} % All your math related needs
\usepackage{tikz} % Draw figures, required for cover page
\usepackage{subfig} % Subfloats
\usepackage{subfloat}
\usepackage[capitalise]{cleveref}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{pax} % java -jar pax.jar name.pdf
\usepackage{upgreek}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{todonotes}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage[tight,nice]{units}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{placeins}
\usepackage{chngcntr}

\crefname{figure}{Figure}{Figures}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathreplacing}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows}
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}

Best regards,
David

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi David,

you could use the chngcntr package for that:

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\usepackage{chngcntr}
\counterwithout{figure}{section}

Perhaps add

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\counterwithin{figure}{chapter}

The same for tables etc. since I assume you would like to have consistent numbering style for all numbered environments.

Stefan

[davidfall]

Thanks Stefan,
But I have already tried that...
For strange reason such change does not affect the numbering style.
I've browsed through the *cls for the document class; does not seem to be anything to do with the numbering there... Could it be some kind of package conflict?

Bests,
David

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Perhaps post the document class here as attachment to a post, I guess the University style is not a secret.

Stefan

[davidfall]

Hi,

Sorry for not coming back with the document class. Found the solution myself.
It strange, tried to sort this out for long time before posting here. Gave up and had some other stuff to take care of. Today I browsed through the .cls again before coming back here and found the very simple solution!

Simply replaced section with chapter in the following section in the cls:

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\@ifpackageloaded{amsmath}{
  \numberwithin{equation}{section}  
  \numberwithin{figure}{section} 
  \numberwithin{table}{section} 
 }

..and now I get continuous numbering within the chapters...

Thanks anyway for trying to help me!
D