Graphics, Figures & Tables

insipidtoast · Post by **insipidtoast** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 1:49 am

I don't really like the format of having all those dots and periods. I just want the figures to simply be listed in order starting at "1" not "0.0.1"

How does one (no pun intended) accomplish this?

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kaiserkarl13 · Post by **kaiserkarl13** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 5:15 am

This happens because you are using a non-article document class (and a very unusual one, from the looks of it). Articles typically have figure numbers like "1"; books and reports have numbers like "2.1" where 2 is the chapter number and 1 is the figure number. You can change this using the \numberwithin command from the amsmath package.

insipidtoast · Post by **insipidtoast** » Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:27 pm

Ok I read the parts of the user guide that mention \numberwithin but I still don't get it. What do I specifically type into the preamble to get what I want?

Thanks

kaiserkarl13 · Post by **kaiserkarl13** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:42 am

Without a $Info$ minimal working example of what is currently in your preamble, I don't know. My crystal ball is on backorder (again...).

Post by **cgnieder** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 12:08 pm

kaiserkarl13 wrote:Without a $Info$ minimal working example of what is currently in your preamble[...]

There might be nothing as insipidtoast is using LyX...

Have a look at the chngcntr package. The number 0.0.1 stands for <chapter>.<section>.<figure>, probably.

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\documentclass{scrbook}
% ----------
% this needs to be in the preamble:
\usepackage{chngcntr}
\counterwithout{figure}{chapter}
\counterwithout{figure}{section}
% ----------
\begin{document}
\listoffigures

\chapter{test}
\begin{figure}
 \caption{test}
\end{figure}

\chapter{test}
\begin{figure}
 \caption{test}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

Regards

insipidtoast · Post by **insipidtoast** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:05 am

Thank you very much! Great quick fix, sir.

This does the trick:

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

kaiserkarl13 · Post by **kaiserkarl13** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 4:53 am

There might be nothing as insipidtoast is using LyX...

There is always something in the preamble---LyX doesn't change that. But without knowing which packages are loaded and, more importantly, which document class is in use, I was a bit short on info.

LyX is not some magical being that changes the way LaTeX works---it's a front-end.

Post by **cgnieder** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:40 am

Oh, I didn't want to imply that LyX changed the way LaTeX works. Why should it do that?

What I meant was: it might be difficult to know what in the preamble is. LyX lets you add things to the preamble but doesn't show what it adds itself. One could of course tell LyX to show the whole source, which is pretty easy actually... (didn't think of that earlier, but then I'm not a LyX user).

Regards

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