Problem: LaTeX gives the section number instead of the figure number in a text reference.
\nSolution: Be sure that the figure’s label is AFTER its caption.<\/p>\n
Correct: Wrong: LaTeX requires \\label to follow \\caption. That is, a \\label preceding a \\caption is ignored. Problem: LaTeX gives the section number instead of the figure number in a text reference. Solution: Be sure that the figure’s label is AFTER its caption. Correct: \\begin{figure} \\includegraphics{.\/images\/myimage.png} \\caption{A beautiful, wonderful image.} \\label{fig:myimage} \\end{figure} Wrong: \\begin{figure} \\includegraphics{.\/images\/myimage.png} \\label{fig:myimage} \\caption{A beautiful, wonderful image.} \\end{figure} LaTeX requires \\label to follow \\caption. That is, a \\label preceding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,96],"tags":[322,321,320,314,317,313,323,319,315,316],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phd-diary","category-random-thoughts","tag-caption","tag-label","tag-ref","tag-figures","tag-labels","tag-latex","tag-latex-ref","tag-latex-errors","tag-latex-figure-labelling","tag-latex-figures-with-section-names-as-labels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\\begin{figure}
\n\\includegraphics{.\/images\/myimage.png}
\n\\caption{A beautiful, wonderful image.}
\n\\label{fig:myimage}
\n\\end{figure}
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\n\\begin{figure}
\n\\includegraphics{.\/images\/myimage.png}
\n\\label{fig:myimage}
\n\\caption{A beautiful, wonderful image.}
\n\\end{figure}
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nIf you’re getting section numbers instead of figure numbers as the response to a \\ref, check where the \\label is specified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"