How can I give the same figure number to five different figures on five different pages using latex? For example, fig. 1.1, fig. 1.1 cont'd (player I), fig. 1.1 cont'd (player II), fig. 1.1 cont'd (player III), fig. 1.1 (player IV).
[Tex/LaTex] How to give the same figure number to five different figures on five different pages
floatsnumbering
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In preamble,
\usepackage{newfloat}
\DeclareFloatingEnvironment[name={Supplementary Figure}]{suppfigure}
In text,
\begin{suppfigure}
\caption{...}
\end{suppfigure}
If you use old versions of caption package, there is no newfloat package, then use caption package and \DeclareCaptionType command instead.
Of course, David Carlisle has already mentioned in a comment the correct solution, which is to use the fixltx2e package or a new enough LaTeX kernel (now fixltx2e changes are applied by default). Among other goodies, this will ensure that figures appear in the same order in the output as you specified them in the input.
If, however, you like how LaTeX does it by default, outputting single and double-column figures in independent orders, it is possible to only sort the list of figures by figure number, without changing the output in the main part of the document. The code below does this by ordering lines of the lof file just before \listoffigures is called. The key used to sort is the second item of the second argument of \contentsline, which happens to be the figure number. One could use similar code to sort figures by caption, or whatever other criterion you like.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{imakeidx}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{lipsum}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Sorting a file
\usepackage{catchfile}
\usepackage{expl3, xparse}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\tl_new:N \l_sortfile_tl % The contents of file #1.
\seq_new:N \l_sortfile_seq % The contents, split at the delimiter #2.
\tl_new:N \l_sortfile_first_tl % Part of the file #1 before first #2.
\iow_new:N \l_sortfile_iow % The output goes there.
\tl_new:N \l_sortfile_a_tl % Used for sorting
\tl_new:N \l_sortfile_b_tl % Used for sorting
\cs_new_protected:Npn \sortfile:nnn #1#2#3
{
\IfFileExists {#1}
{ \CatchFileDef { \l_sortfile_tl } {#1} { } }
{ }
\seq_set_split:NnV \l_sortfile_seq {#2} \l_sortfile_tl
\seq_pop:NN \l_sortfile_seq \l_sortfile_first_tl
\seq_sort:Nn \l_sortfile_seq { #3 {##1} {##2} }
\iow_open:Nn \l_sortfile_iow {#1}
\tl_if_empty:NF \l_sortfile_first_tl
{ \iow_now:Nx \l_sortfile_iow { \exp_not:V \l_sortfile_first_tl } }
\seq_map_inline:Nn \l_sortfile_seq
{ \iow_now:Nn \l_sortfile_iow { #2 ##1 } }
\iow_close:N \l_sortfile_iow
}
\cs_new_protected:Npn \sortfile_contents_sort:nn #1#2
{
\tl_set:Nx \l_sortfile_a_tl { \tl_item:nn {#1} {2} }
\tl_set:Nx \l_sortfile_b_tl { \tl_item:nn {#2} {2} }
\int_compare:nNnTF
{ \tl_item:Nn \l_sortfile_a_tl {2} }
> { \tl_item:Nn \l_sortfile_b_tl {2} }
{ \sort_return_swapped: }
{ \sort_return_same: }
}
\DeclareDocumentCommand{\sortfile}{mmm}
{ \sortfile:nnn {#1} {#2} {#3} }
\DeclareDocumentCommand{\contentssort}{mm}
{ \sortfile_contents_sort:nn {#1} {#2} }
\ExplSyntaxOff
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{document}
\sortfile{\jobname.lof}{\contentsline}{\contentssort}
\listoffigures
\twocolumn
\lipsum[1-5]
\begin{figure}\footnotesize\lipsum[2]\caption{First figure}\end{figure}
\lipsum[6]
\begin{figure*}\footnotesize\lipsum[2]\caption{Second figure}\end{figure*}
\lipsum[7]
\begin{figure}\footnotesize\lipsum[2]\caption{Third figure}\end{figure}
\lipsum[8]
\begin{figure}\footnotesize\lipsum[2]\caption{Fourth figure}\end{figure}
\lipsum[9-15]
\end{document}
Best Answer
You can use the
\ContinuedFloatcommand from thecaptionpackage; using\DeclareCaptionLabelFormatyou can customize the format for the lable to include, for example, "(Continued)"; a little example: