[Tex/LaTex] list of figures and page numbering

header-footertable of contents

I made a list of figures at the end of my document and i have a problem. List of figures is longer than one page and i don't want any page numbers on any of these pages.

Unfortunately comands below make page number dissapear only on the last page of the list of figures. How can i remove page numbers on every page of list of figures?

\thispagestyle{empty}
\listoffigures

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You have to locally override the behavior of \chapter* that issues \thispagestyle{plain}.

A hack is to say

\cleardoublepage
\begingroup
\makeatletter
\let\ps@plain\ps@empty
\makeatother

\pagestyle{empty}
\listoffigures
\cleardoublepage
\endgroup

at the point where you want the list of figures.

A more abstract way is to define a command in the preamble:

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\emptypage}[1]{%
  \cleardoublepage
  \begingroup
  \let\ps@plain\ps@empty
  \pagestyle{empty}
  #1
  \cleardoublepage}
\makeatletter

and then say, for instance

\emptypage\tableofcontents

\emptypage\listoffigures

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Use the optional argument for \caption:

\caption[Text to the LoF]{Text for the document \cite{xx}}

With the edit to the original question, I would suggest this definition of \munepsfig (using the xparse package):

\usepackage{xparse}

\NewDocumentCommand\munepsfig{O{scale=1.0}mom}
{% 
\begin{figure}[!htbp] 
  \centering 
  \vspace{2mm} 
  \includegraphics[#1]{figures/#2.eps}
  \IfNoValueTF {#3}
    {\caption{#4}}
    {\caption[#3]{#4}} 
  \label{fig:#2} 
\end{figure}%
}

And use it like this:

\munepsfig[scale=0.5,angle=90]{image}[Text for the LoF]{Text for the document}

if you want to have a different text in the LoF, or simply as

\munepsfig[scale=0.5,angle=90]{image}{Text for the document and the LoF}

to have the same text in both the document and the LoF.

Note that the new third argument is optional so you only have to use it if you want to use the optional argument of \caption.

[Tex/LaTex] List of Figures sorted by Figure number

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}

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