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PROBLEM:

soh@tmp_ip_003.trl.OZ.AU (Soh Kam Hung) writes:

>I want figures in my document to have the section number preceeding the
>figure number.  The counter for the figure number should be reset at
>the start of each section.

Thanks for the following people for replying to my article:

AUGH PHUQ KILL!!!!!!!!! <cjf@maths.uq.oz.au>
(mcl) mcl@eikona.eng.monash.edu.au
Greg Lampard <g.lampard@trl.oz.au>

SOLUTIONS:

Mine:

  \renewcommand{\thefigure}{\arabic{section}.\arabic{figure}}

  At the beginning of each section, I reset the figure number:

  \setcounter{figure}{0}
  \section{blah blah blah}

Greg's:

  It's all done (I think) by the \@startsection command,
  which just has an argument (secnumdepth?) to tell it whether it's a 
  chapter, section, subsection.  I think if you want to avoid resetting the 
  figure counter you'll have to extract the definition of \@startsection 
  from latex.tex, put it at the top of your document, and edit it to
  include something like:
  if (secnumdepth = 2) figure = 0 
  that's not the right syntax, but you get the idea.

  Maybe it's easier just to reset the counter every time!

mcl@eikona.eng.monash.edu.au:

  \renewcommand{\thefigure}{\arabic{section}.\arabic{figure}}
  \@addtoreset{figure}{section} 

  But that only works if this command is in a .sty file.

cjf@maths.uq.oz.au showed me how to use the \@ command in a document:

  \renewcommand{\thefigure}{\arabic{section}.\arabic{figure}}
  \makeatletter
  \@addtoreset{figure}{section}
  \makeatother


CONCLUSION:

cjf@maths.uq.oz.au's solution is the best, since I can have fancy
numbering without requiring another file.  

Regards,

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