[Tex/LaTex] Eliminate reference to chapter in table caption (memoir class)

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I'm editing a book using the memoir class. Each chapter has a different author, and I restart numbering of all elements at the start of each chapter. So far, so good. However, I want to eliminate the chapter number that occurs in front of tables and figures (e.g. Table 1, not Table 0.1). I put this into my preamble, but it does only have an effect on footnotes and section titels. 

\counterwithout{footnote}{chapter}
\counterwithout{section}{chapter}
\counterwithout{table}{chapter}
\counterwithout{figure}{chapter}

I suspected the fact that I use the caption-package with the memoir class was what caused the problem. Removing this did however not help.

The code runs like this:

\begin{table}[h!]
    \captionof{table}{\emph{some caption}}
    \begin{tabular}{lrr}
        \hline & \textbf{column A}  & \textbf{column B}  \\
        \hline  \textbf{Alpha}  & a  & b  \\
        \textbf{Beta}  & a  & b  \\
        \textbf{Gamma}  & a  & b \\
        \hline  \textbf{Total} & 100  & 100  \\

        \hline \label{fig1}
    \end{tabular}
\end{table}

I've been reading he memoir manual and poking around the web all day, but I haven't got any closer to solving this problem.

Grateful for any help.

UPDATE:

This is my main document. I didn't want to include it, because it is loooooong.

\documentclass [paperwidth=170mm, paperheight=240mm, 11 pt]{memoir}
\usepackage[cyr]{aeguill}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[francais, english]{babel}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{multicol}

\usepackage{tablefootnote}
\usepackage[dvipsnames,svgnames,table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{linguex}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\usepackage{phonetic}
\usepackage{xyling}
\usepackage{titling}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{textcomp}

\usepackage{chngcntr}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{makeidx}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{caption}

\usepackage[figurename=Fig.]{caption}
\usepackage[tablename=Tab.]{caption}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage[dvipsnames,svgnames,table]{xcolor}
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1}
 \setfloatadjustment{figure}{\small\centering}
\setfloatadjustment{table}{\small\centering}

\makeatletter

\preto{\@ex}{\topsep=0pt \parskip=0pt \parsep=0pt \partopsep=0pt }
\makeatother


\titleformat{\section}{\normalsize \bfseries}{\thesection}{1.75em}{\textsc}
\titleformat{\subsection}{\normalsize \bfseries}{\thesubsection}{1em}{\emph}
\titleformat{\subsubsection}{\normalsize \mdseries}{\thesubsubsection}{1em}{\emph}

\renewcommand{\cftchapterfont}{\normalfont}
\renewcommand{\cftpartfont}{\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cftchapterpagefont}{\normalfont}

\renewcommand{\captionfont}{\small}
\renewcommand{\firstrefdash}{}

\pagestyle{myheadings}

\setlength{\parsep}{0pt}

\setsecnumdepth{subsection}

\makeatletter
\let\@afterindenttrue\@afterindentfalse
\makeatother

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{0}

\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1}
\counterwithout{footnote}{chapter}
\counterwithout{section}{chapter}
\counterwithout{table}{chapter}
\counterwithout{figure}{chapter}


\begin{document}

\selectlanguage{francais}

\frontmatter

\selectlanguage{francais}

\tableofcontents*


\include{introduction}

\newpage

\mainmatter

\part{La langue française}

\include{somepaper}

\backmatter

\include{index}

\end{document}

The problems I'm experiencing is in the {somepaper} under \mainmatter. (Actually, in all papers that contain tables or figures.) I tried \stepcounter{table}, which removed the numbering all together.

Best Answer

\mainmatter does a few things

  • resets secnumdepth to mxsecnumdepth
  • reset the page counter to start from one and be normal numbers
  • reset the figure and table counters into .

So you have two choices

  1. move your \counterwithout stuff after \mainmatter, or

  2. use this

    \makeatletter
\renewcommand\@memmain@floats{}
\makeatother

This is the macro that resets the figure and table inside \mainmatter, so now it does nothing.

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