Sorry, in writing "http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=minxampl,
which matches the
Web address I cited above"
(http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=minxampl) I was wrong.
Looking closely at those two Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) the second one
has .../faq/... in it while the first one does not. So they don't match
after all. Furthermore while online I found that I could enter the URL
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=minxampl into my Mozilla
Firefox-18 Web browser and "reach" that corresponding Web page on the
Internet. So another correction to my earlier writing is that by the entry
of that single URL into a Web browser on January 17, 2013 I could directly
reach the corresponding Web page. Sorry, I made those errors. I noticed
the difference in those two URLs after I received an electronic-mail letter
kindly written to me by Robin Fairbairns.
Another point is that I figured out that it may have been about 18-27 days
before January 16, 2013 when I had trouble getting figures to be
automatically numbered in a document. So that is more precise than "weeks
or months" that I mentioned in my next-earlier electronic-mail letter in
this "chain" of electronic-mail letters.
Pat
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From: "Pat Somerville" <l_pa...@hotmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 7:22 PM
To: <latex2html@tug.org>
Subject: Re: [l2h] Wrong figure numbers in figure captions when I attempted
to have my figures automatically numbered using ~\ref..... commands in my
.tex file
Hello. Thanks, Les Kitchen and Robin Fairbairns, for kindly taking the
time to write to me. I appreciate people like you who are willing to help
other people! Sorry, my writing was admittedly not very
historically specific.----If one can manage it, of course it's better to
write on a topic when it is fresh in one's mind
and experience rather than to wait for weeks to months later like I tried
to do. Unfortunately while online clicking on the hyperlink
http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=minxampl, kindly
provided to me, did not "take" me to the corresponding Web page on the
Internet. While online after clicking on that hyperlink I received the
message "The requested URL /faq/cgi-bin/texfaq2html was not found on this
server." But regardless of that message, I found a way to reach the
content on that Web page:
1) On the Internet "go" to the Web page http://www.tex.ac.uk/.
2) Click on the hyperlink reading "UK TUG FAQ."
3) On the ensuing Web page under "Documentation and Help" click on the
hyperlink reading 'How to make a "minimal example".' Then while there on
the Internet from the address bar of my Mozilla Firefox-18 Web browser I
copied and pasted here the Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=minxampl, which matches the
Web address I cited above.
So I think this is a case in which that final Web page could not be
reached from the Internet by inputting just the final URL into a Web
browser. Instead, as I outlined above, I had to click on some hyperlinks
on other Web pages in order to reach it.
I figured out how to "reach" that Web page after I had already written
most of what is below this paragraph in this write-up. I hope you don't
mind; but my approach in tackling the problem of having automatically
numbered figures in a LaTeX2HTML-produced, .html (HyperText Markup
Language) output file has turned out to be very different than providing
you with a minimal example of my failing LaTeX code, as recommended on the
above Web page. Nevertheless the "Building-up" and "Hacking-down"
approaches discussed on that Web page do appear to be valid approaches
toward "homing in" on the cause of a problem in LaTeX code. So at least
for the benefit of other people, thanks, Robin Fairbairns, and/or whoever
kindly prepared the contents of the above Web page, for preparing them.
You or someone wrote on the cited Web page, "First, preparing a minimum
document very often leads you to the answer, without all the fuss of
posting and looking for responses."---When and if that happens, that would
demonstrate that your procedure is or procedures are very good toward
finding the causes of problems in LaTeX code!
Here are the versions and/or times of release or production of the codes
LaTeX and LaTeX2HTML to which my writing below applies:
LaTeX2e, September 24, 2009
LaTeX2HTML version 2008, version 1.71
.
Gratefully I have a solution for having figures automatically numbered in
a .html file mostly produced by the code LaTeX2HTML in conjunction with
the code LaTeX plus some final editing of the HTML source code in that
file. Les mentioned using the command \caption. I learned that it is a
part of LaTeX's figure environment, as in an environment which begins with
\begin{figure} and ends with \end{figure} (But I think there may be a
separate software package called "caption" invoked by the command
\usepackage{caption} with which I experimented recently, but finally did
not use in my solution.). I found a good posting at
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~hildebr/tex/tips-figures.html on the Internet
which includes the following LaTeX commands:
\documentclass{amsart}
\usepackage{graphicx}
.
.
\begin{document}
.
.
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics{sineplot}
\caption{Plot of the function $sin x$}
\label{sineplot}
\end{figure}
Figure \ref{sineplot} shows a plot of %just an example of textual
reference to the figure in the document
.
.
\end{document}
The word "sineplot" has two functions in the above code: 1) It is the name
of a figure file, for example sineplot.eps or sineplot.jpg, without both
its extension, for example eps or jpg, and the period separating
"sineplot" from, for example, eps or jpg. 2) It is the label assigned to
the figure in the above code. I made some minor changes to the above
LaTeX procedure:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
In the file name I might have included the .eps (Encapsulated PostScript)
extension.
I may have used the format \caption[....]{....} with the caption text
between the brackets repeated within the braces.
Also I may have included a width option in the \includegraphics command,
as in the form of something like
\includegraphics[width=5.99in]{myfigure.eps}.
And I might have had a tilde in textual references as in the form "in
Fig.~\ref{FigureLabel}". Also I read that the software package called
graphicx may possibly conflict with other software packages; so somewhere
along in my recent experimenting I placed graphicx first in my list of
software packages I had listed in \usepackage{graphicx,..,..,.....}.
Eventually I switched to using \begin{center} and \end{center}, but
perhaps not in this early stage.
My working document in my experimenting reported here contained text and
LaTeX commands on which an execution of latex and latex2html.... commands
had failed to produce correct figure numbers in the .html output file
produced by LaTeX2HTML. Often for my tests I ran a latex command three
times and a latex2html command twice on the same .tex, LaTeX file.
Something close to the above procedure, using the \caption instead of the
\parbox command for figure captions, gratefully produced good figure
numbering in the DeVice Independent (.dvi) output file produced by a
command of the form "latex MyLaTeXFile.tex". But unfortunately in the
.html output file produced by LaTeX2HTML the references in text to figures
using commands of the form \ref{FigureLabel} resulted in the wrong figure
numbers; and the figure numbers were missing in the figure captions.
Given the kind writing of Robin Fairbairns to me, in an attempt to obtain
good LaTeX2HTML output I decided to switch to putting my figure captions
within the braces of a \parbox command; for a period of time I abandoned
the use of the \caption command. But unfortunately I did not have success
that way in a .html file. From
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~abridle/l2h4nrao/l2h4nrao.pdf for LaTeX2HTML I saw
the following set of commands:
\begin{figure}{thp}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=4in]{fig1}
\caption{Captiontext}
\label{fig:labeltext}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
.
And within that write-up, written by probably A. Bridle, I found the
important statement:
"Note that the \label command must come after, or within, the caption
command for Figures and Tables, in order to generate the correct
reference."
That statement was supported by the results of my experiments with LaTeX
code in the use of LaTeX2HTML. That is I could not obtain correct figure
numbers in the LaTeX2HTML, .html output file unless in my .tex, LaTeX file
I had a \caption.. command immediately preceding a command of the form
\label{MyFigureLabel}. So the use of the word "must" in A. Bridle's above
writing seems very appropriate to me.
Comparing captions placed within \parbox, LaTeX commands to captions
placed within \caption commands I prefer the right- and left-justified
appearance of the captions in the corresponding .html file with the
captions placed within \parbox commands; from my experience captions
within \caption commands in the corresponding .html output file were
centered, but with left and right "edges" of the lines of text that were
often not vertically aligned.---This latter effect was often noticeable in
multiline captions in a .html output file produced by LaTeX2HTML.
Secondly by experience I found that I should also include specifications
for the heights of my figures within my \includegraphics commands. So in
my .tex, LaTeX file I tried a set of commands similar to the ones below,
placing my figure captions within \parbox commands, and also having an
empty \caption{} command so as to obtain the correct figure numbers in the
LaTeX2HTML, .html, output file in both text and figure captions:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,.......}
.
\begin{document}
.
.
As shown in Fig.~\ref{MyFigureLabel} ....
\vspace{1cm}
\begin{figure}[h!]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=5.99in,height=3.56in]{MyFigure.eps}
\parbox{\linewidth}{\small\setlength{\baselineskip}{2.6ex}Fig.~\ref{MyFigureLabel}.
Here is where I would place my caption to the Figure.}
\caption{}
\label{MyFigureLabel}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
\vspace{5 mm}
\noindent More text here
.
.
\end{document}
I changed some names in the above lines of code to names different from
the ones which actually appeared in my .tex, LaTeX file. Note that to
obtain both the abbreviation "Fig." and the figure number within my figure
caption in the output, .html file, within my \parbox command in my .tex,
LaTeX file I have text and a command of the form
"Fig.~\ref{MyFigureLabel}. Here is..."
The above solution produced the correct, automatically numbered figure
numbers in both the text and figure captions of my output, .html file.
But the inclusion of the empty \caption{} command had the unwanted result
of producing, for example, "Figure 1:" right under my figure caption for
that figure in both the LaTeX, .dvi and LaTeX2HTML, .html output files.
By a few means with ideas from Web postings I tried to by LaTeX coding
eliminate such unwanted displays in my .html, output file, but did not
succeed in doing so (Perhaps some procedures posted on the Internet for
eliminating something like "Figure 1:" in a figure caption might work in a
.dvi output file produced by LaTeX; but my main goal was to find a working
procedure for a .html, output file.).
Of course one can get rid of content he does not want in a .html file he
produced by deleting that content from the HTML source code for the .html
file.---And that is what I did in this case. I could open the .html
output file produced by LaTeX2HTML in a text editor and delete lines,
perhaps called HTML tags, of the following forms for each of my figures:
<CAPTION ALIGN="BOTTOM"><STRONG>Figure 8:</STRONG>
</CAPTION>
<TR><TD>
. After using a second text editor I eventually had the edited .html file
saved as a text file in the 8-bit, Uniform Transformation Format (UTF-8)
encoding. Then at last gratefully I could open that .html file in my
Konqueror Web browser and see the following features that I wanted to see:
1) no, for example, "Figure 8:" underneath a caption to figure 8; 2)
internal hyperlinks in text displaying the correct figure numbers; 3) for
example, "Fig. 1. " at the beginning of a figure caption to figure 1 with
the correct figure number there; and 4) the figure captions neatly right-
and left-justified. One missing feature was that in having figure
captions within \parbox commands, internal hyperlinks within a figure
caption to another figure in my .html output file did not appear in the
output, .html file. For example, an internal hyperlink to figure 8 in the
caption to figure 9 was only displayed as Fig. 8 with the "8" appearing in
black instead of the blue text one would often see in my installation of
the Konqueror Web browser in the case of an internal hyperlink.
Perhaps someone knows of a better way to have figures automatically
numbered in a .html, output file produced by LaTeX2HTML. For example, if
someone knows of a way to have good-looking, left- and right-justified
caption text confined to the width of a figure and located below it, then
perhaps the caption could be included within the braces of a \caption{}
command without the use of a \parbox command. And in that case editing
the .html source code produced by LaTeX2HTML could be unnecessary.
Pat
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From: "Robin Fairbairns" <robin.fairbai...@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 12:07 PM
To: "Pat Somerville" <l_pa...@hotmail.com>
Cc: <latex2html@tug.org>
Subject: Re: [l2h] Wrong figure numbers in figure captions when I
attempted to have my figures automatically numbered using ~\ref.....
commands in my .tex file
Pat Somerville <l_pa...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hello. I tried to automatically number
figures using commands like "Fig.~\ref{....}" and in text and
\label{...}
commands within figure environments in my .tex file. I might have tried
to
include figure captions within \caption and/or \parbox commands.
Anyhow, my figure numbers were incorrect in the figure captions.
Another variable is that I have been using both pdflatex and latex plus
latex2html commands in recent weeks; so there is a question whether I
was
examining a Portable Document Format (.pdf) output file produced by a
pdflatex command or a .html file produced by executing a latex2html
command. Recently I gave up on getting the figure numbers within
captions
correct by attempting to have the figures automatically numbered via
the use of ~\ref{....} commands.---That is I numbered the figures myself
everywhere within a .tex file. Would someone please guide me or refer
me to a guide of consistent \caption or \parbox commands together with
~\ref{...} in text and \label{...} commands within figure environments
for
automatic figure numbering in text that will enable both the figure
numbers
within figure captions and the figure numbers within text to be correct?
A
desirable solution for the automatic numbering of figures within both
the figure
captions and the text of a document would be one which would work in a
.tex file
with either pdflatex or latex2html commands.
this is either totally trivial (sequence should always be
\caption{...}
\label{...}
)
or totally impossible to diagnose with statements like
I might have tried to include figure captions within \caption and/or
\parbox commands.
captions would work within a \parbox but not with \caption.
tbh, this doesn't sound particularly specific to latex2html: i would
guess that if you feed rubbish to latex2html, you're _more_ likely to
get rubbish out than if you feed it to (la)tex. in such a circumstance,
the (la)tex problem may be more amenable to comprehension.
the standard recommendation is that you produce a "minimal example" of a
problem. this is described (for example) in
http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=minxampl
(there are different explanations all over the web).
post the minimal example and we might be able to help. (those of us
owning crystal balls can probably see the solution without the minimal
example, but we ordinary mortals can only understand things that have
happened.)
roibn (anag)
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