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milko259349307s4y
Inspiring
January 19, 2023
Question

figure numbering, [not] very simple

  • January 19, 2023
  • 3 replies
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hello,

what if i want to manually write the word "figure" in my images captions and only after put the autonumber from the paragraph style ?

my goal is to have captions look like Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3 and so on, and the possibility to refer only the number of the caption without the word "Fig. "

thx for your advice

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Barb Binder
Barb Binder
Adobe Expert
January 19, 2023

This is so simple in FrameMaker, which supports paranum (text and auto-number) and paranumonly (just the auto-number) in an cross-reference. Someone has already logged this as a feature request, please consider voting for it.

 

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/40317685-make-it-possible-to-use-paranumonly-in-indesign-cr

 

~Barb

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    milko259349307s4yAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 20, 2023

    Yes, maybe this FM characteristic it is since 1994, when I hade start using FM to publish also in chinese language with the language kit available only in mac...

    I definitely vote, thanks for reporting.

     

    hammer0909
    hammer0909
    Adobe Expert
    January 19, 2023

    If you go to Object > Captions > Caption Setup, you can enter text that you want to appear before the caption. Although this won't work if your caption style is a numbered list. You'll probably need to pull the number from a metadata filed in the image.

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    milko259349307s4yAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 19, 2023

    thx Chad,

    as you write my caption is a numbered list.

    so it is not possible to reference to some images only with the number whithout the prefix ?

    I mean something like this:

    "[CUT] please see figure 10, 11 and 12".

     

    at this time i'm able to produce the complete text of the caption:

    "[CUT] please see figure 10, figure 11 and figure 12", this because the prefix "figure" is inside the number field of my caption paragraph style.

    hammer0909
    hammer0909
    Adobe Expert
    January 19, 2023

    Oh yeah, you can totally do that. To accomplish that you would use cross-references not captions. Window > Type and Tables > Cross References.

    Peter Spier
    Peter Spier
    Adobe Expert
    January 19, 2023

    I'm not sure I understand waht you want to do, but if your caption style is a Numbered List, then the Fig. prefix can be added to the number in the options by typing it in to the number field befor the number marker.

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      milko259349307s4yAuthor
      Inspiring
      January 19, 2023

      thx Peter,

      I dont want to write the prefix "Fig. " in the number field befor the number marker. I just want the number marker in the number field. Despite of this I want to have the caption look like "Fig. + [number marker]". Is there a way to do so ?

      thx

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