[Tex/LaTex] How to create a list of figures

table of contents

My problem is not exactly creating the list, but I create it according to the norms of my country. The list should look like this

Figure 1 – Caption (white space or dotted) 6

It should start with the word figure followed by its numbering, then a dash, then its caption and in the right corner of the page the number of the page where it appears.

There is a class called abntex2 that does this, but I could not make it work using the book class. Some commands contained in the abntex2 class that are related to the list of figures are

\renewcommand{\cftfigurename}{\figurename\space}
\renewcommand*{\cftfigureaftersnum}{\hfill\textendash\hfill}

Add un minimal code (need any figure called 1)

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\renewcommand{\cftfigurename}{\figurename\space}
\renewcommand*{\cftfigureaftersnum}{\hfill\textendash\hfill}

\begin{document}

\pdfbookmark[0]{\listfigurename}{lof}%need \usepackage{hyperref}
\listoffigures*
\cleardoublepage

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{1}
\caption{Test}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

Best Answer

Here is a way. I supposed you won't have more than 99 figures (one has to compute the width of the label in the list of figures). I also added the emptypage package, to have no header/footer on empty pages.

Also, as mentioned by @ChristianHupfer, the hand-made \pdfbookmark[0]{…} can be replaced with loading package tocbibind with option [notoc] so that the table of contents does not refer to itself. 

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{showframe} 
\renewcommand{\ShowFrameLinethickness}{0.3pt}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}
\usepackage{emptypage}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\renewcommand*{\cftfigname}{\figurename\space}
\renewcommand*{\cftfigaftersnum}{~\textendash\hfill}
\renewcommand{\cftfigpresnum}{\cftfigname}
\setlength{\cftfigindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\cftfignumwidth}{\widthof{\cftfigname 00~\textendash~}}

\begin{document}

\pagestyle{plain}

\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\cleardoublepage
\setcounter{figure}{49}

\chapter{Some Chapter}

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image}
\caption{Test}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

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