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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX Problem (figure and table numbering)
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Date: 27 Sep 90 12:07:33 GMT
References: <1990Sep26.185900.1879@ariel.unm.edu>
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In-reply-to: stanly@crunch.unm.edu (Stanly Steinberg)

>>>>> In article <1990Sep26.185900.1879@ariel.unm.edu>, stanly@crunch.unm.edu (Stanly Steinberg) (SS) writes:

SS> At the beginning of the source the LaTeX for a document, I have the following:

SS> \documentstyle[12pt]{article}
SS> \renewcommand{\theequation}{\thesection.\arabic{equation}}
SS> \renewcommand{\thefigure}{\thesection.\arabic{figure}}
SS> \renewcommand{\thetable}{\thesection.\arabic{table}}

SS> In Section 3, I have a figure and a table that are labelled with
SS> a \label{xxx} command. In the figure and table captions and in the
SS> list of figures and list of tables, the numbering is correct (3.1)
SS> but when \ref{xxx} is used it produces only a 3 (i.e. the .1 is  missing).
SS> Does anyone have a fix for this?

This is one of the standard errors: the correct place for the \label is IN
the \caption argument or after the \caption command (LaTeX book, page 72).
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