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From: Victor Eijkhout
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 1990 00:28
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 1990 00:28
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rstanton@portia.Stanford.EDU (Richard Stanton) writes:
>I'm having a problem using the \ref command with LATEX tables. I start the
>table using
>\begin{table}
>\label{tname}
>...
>then refer to it in the text as \ref{tname}. However, this often either gives
>me the wrong number, or even a section number (e.g. 4.2.1), which is not
>what I want. This is the way I use \label in equations, sections etc, and
>it always works. What's wrong here?
The \label command associates a label with a number, but first
that number must have been generated. In your case it is first
generated when you give the \caption command, so move the
\label after that.
Victor.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!csrd.uiuc.edu!s41.csrd.uiuc.edu!eijkhout From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) Newsgroups: su.computers,comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Need help with LATEX table problem. Message-ID: <1990Nov17.002844.13037@csrd.uiuc.edu> Date: 17 Nov 90 00:28:44 GMT References: <1990Nov16.192146.23789@portia.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@csrd.uiuc.edu (news) Organization: UIUC Center for Supercomputing Research and Development Lines: 20