General ⇒ Counters inside figure environment

[greg]

Hi,

I'm having problems with using counters inside figure environment. I have a counter deifned as:

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\newcounter{subfig}
\newcommand{\subfigcounterlabel}[1]{\textbf{\alph{#1}, }}
\newcommand{\newsubfig}{\refstepcounter{subfig}\subfigcounterlabel{subfig}}

and this works if used outside the figure environment (produces a, b, c,... sequence).

However, if \newsubfig is used inside the figure environment, I get an error:

Missing \endcsname inserted.
<to be read again>
\csname\endcsname

I don't quite understand \csname and where it should be placed; i've tried playing around with it a bit, but unsuccessfully.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Greg

[localghost]

For sub-figures there exist several packages.

• floatrow
• subcaption (from caption)
• subfig

The latter one isn't maintained any more and cause problems.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[greg]

Hi Thorsten,

Thanks a lot for the swift reply! However, I think I was too vague in my initial post on what I need to do. I have a single .eps figure, with a single caption. The only thing is that I need to have a counter inside of that figure caption to account for the numbering in the figure. I can do it manually but I thought having a counter to do it would be a neater thing to do. The counter name I use is just by accident the same as the subfig package.

I've looked a bit into the packages you recommended, but it seems to me they deal with more elaborate stuff, like having several different figures under one caption etc. Or am I missing something?

Best,
Greg