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From: texinfo1@rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Rainer Schoepf)
Subject: Re: Assigning Labels Manually in LaTeX
Message-ID: <1991May6.154730.10701@rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
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Date: Mon, 6 May 1991 15:47:30 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.   
>
>thanx
>terry


AMS-LaTeX allows you to define your own labels. Since this is failry modular,
it should be sufficient to use the amstex style option that comes with
AMS-LaTeX.


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