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From: duchier@cs.yale.edu (Denys Duchier)
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Subject: Re: Assigning Labels Manually in LaTeX
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Date: 7 May 91 13:09:26 GMT
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In article <gBLF21w163w@shark.cs.fau.edu> terryb.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (terry bohning) writes:
 >   Is there any way to assign a number to a figure label manually in
 >   LaTeX?  I have a picture on a separate page which I would like to 
 >   refer to in the text using a label such as Figure~\ref{fi:fig}.  
 >   But since it's not a LaTeX figure, I cannot use 
 >   \caption{This Figure \label{fi:fig}}.
 >   So I need a way to assign a number to a caption label and step the caption
 >   label counter.   

Try this:

{\makeatletter
 \gdef\mylabel#1#2{{\def\@currentlabel{#1}\label{#2}}}}


Usage:		\mylabel{REFERENCE TEXT}{LABEL}

Example:	\mylabel{[Funky Picture]}{fi:fig}

--Denys