[texhax] referencing figures, prepend word "Fig"
W. J. Metzger
wesley.metzger at cern.ch
Wed Apr 9 10:32:48 CEST 2008
define a new command in the preamble
\newcommand{\Fig}[1]{Fig.\,\ref{#1}}%
then \Fig{fig:dataflow1654}
Good luck, Wes
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 20:29 +0100, Andy Farnell wrote:
> Dear tex hackers,
>
> When I started writing I was unsure of whether to use the word "figure",
> "diagram", "fig" or whatever, so I decided to defer that decision until
> later. Throughout the text all references are given as \ref{fig:foobar},
> or \ref{tab:atable} and so forth.
>
> Now, I want to automatically prepend the word "Fig" or "Table" to each
> reference depending on the three characters that appear before the colon.
>
> Such that
>
> In \ref{fig:dataflow1654} you can see ...
>
> Becomes
>
> In Fig 1.2 you can see ...
>
>
> and likewise for table references of the form \ref{tab:table345} which
> would become
>
> In Table 1.7 a summary is given ...
>
> Is it possible to redefine \ref to do this?
>
> Gratefully in anticipation of any help,
>
> Andy
>
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W. J. Metzger <wesley.metzger at cern.ch>
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