Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Chapter zero figures

[jill99]

Hi everyone. I'm new to this forum, so let's hope you don't find my post inadequate.

I'm using LaTeX to write my thesis. I've been using it for some months, so I still consider myself a newbie. I like to write my documents with Kile, then compile them with pdflatex.

The thing is, this is the first time I've included a 'Zero' chapter, for using it as an introduction. I took this as example: http://einstein.drexel.edu/liki/index.p ... and_Tricks. I also needed to include some images. My code would resemble this (partial section):

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\setcounter{chapter}{-1}
\chapter{Introduction}
\pagestyle{headings}

Text paragraph.

	\section{Section name}

	Another paragraph.

		\subsection{Subsection name}

		Yep, another one.

		\begin{figure}[h!]
			\centering
			\includegraphics[width=100mm]{image1.png}
			\caption{First image}
		\end{figure}

Everything goes smooth, but I noticed that, when adding a figure index with:

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\listoffigures

the image's index entry looks like

1. First Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (page)

, instead of

0.1. First image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (page)

. The entries for other chapters' images are shown well, e.g.,

7.2. Second image from chapter 7 . . . (page)

.

Is this supposed to be OK? Have I missed something?

Thanks for your support.

[localghost]

[…] I'm new to this forum, so let's hope you don't find my post inadequate. […]

But unfortunately it is [1]. For the described problem it requires a minimal example to get some useful information, e. g. about the used document class.

[…] I'm using LaTeX to write my thesis. I've been using it for some months, so I still consider myself a newbie. I like to write my documents with Kile, then compile them with pdflatex. […]

You probably wouldn't ask here if you would use another software.

[…] Is this supposed to be OK? Have I missed something? […]

The behaviour is quite normal and caused by the definition of the figure counter in the used document class (see above).

It is suggestive to use the starred \chapter* command for things like introductions. For an appropriate figure caption you could use the caption package which provides a starred \caption* command that suppresses the figure numbering and the LoF entry. Since you don't set a label for reference this won't do any harm.

[1] View topic: Avoidable mistakes


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten