Changing/Adding the Caption label

captions

I wanted to have a new caption label "Plate 1", "Plate 2"…. and so on.
In addition, the same document should have figure and table captions also.
That means I need "Plate 1", "Plate 2"…., "Figure 1", "Figure 2"…., "Table 1", "Table 2"….

Best Answer

Here's a solution with two packages: caption to provide the ability to switch between two 'sorts" of caption labels, and newfloat to provide the ability to create a custom caption label.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{newfloat}

\DeclareFloatingEnvironment{plate}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[!htb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=5cm]{example-image-a}
\caption{\label{fig:image}An image.}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[!htb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=5cm]{example-image-a}
\captionsetup{type=plate}
\caption{\label{fig:plate}A plate.}
\end{figure}
    
\end{document}

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Unless each member of the audience is expected to have a printed copy of the paper to follow while you do your presentation, I think it doesn't make a lot of sense to number your Figures/Tables in the presentation. How about just keeping something like "Figure: Some short title" with the standard captioning facilities from beamer?

If for some reason you really, really want to include the number of each figure/table as it appeared on the original document, you could manually redefine \figurename before issuing each \caption command to include the appropriate number. For example:

\begin{figure}
% your figure goes here

\def\figurename{Figure 1}
\caption{Some short title}
\end{figure}

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You could use the tocloft package; an example:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tocloft}

\newlength{\mylen}

\renewcommand{\cftfigpresnum}{\figurename\enspace}
\renewcommand{\cftfigaftersnum}{:}
\settowidth{\mylen}{\cftfigpresnum\cftfigaftersnum}
\addtolength{\cftfignumwidth}{\mylen}

\begin{document}

\listoffigures
\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \centering
  \rule{2cm}{2cm}
  \caption{test figure one}
  \label{fig:test1}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \centering
  \rule{2cm}{2cm}
  \caption{test figure two}
  \label{fig:test2}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

If you want tocloft to use default LaTeX formatting (so it won't "mess up" for example the layout of your table of contents and so on) you can use the titles option of the package:

\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}

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