Latex label/ref for "fake" external figure
- by Yannick Wurm
Hello,
some journals require each figure to be submitted in a separate document. However, they do want the figure legends to be listed in the main document.
I was thus hoping to do something along these lines:
\section{Figure Legends}
\begin{description}
\item[Figure \ref{fig:fireAntBiology}] \label{fig:fireAntBiology} bla bla ants
\end{description}
This would still permit to \ref the figure from the main text.
However, it doesn't work (The \ref returns the number of section "Figure Legends"). The following correctly gives a different number to each "figure":
\item[Figure \ref{fig:fireAntBiology}] \begin{figure} \caption{\label{fig:fireAntBiology}} \end{figure} bla bla ants
However, it also places empty figure floats throughout the document.
A solution should be straightforward. What am I missing? Any ideas?
Thanks!
yannick
