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Originally Posted by Guessed
Caption numbers are simply SEQ fields and all fields have option switches which enable what you are trying to do. Where you need the A, B you will need a second field with a new sequence name.
Firstly put all the captions in normally. Each number will be a field with the following field code {Seq Figure}. You can see and edit the field code by selecting the figure number, right clicking and choosing Toggle Field Codes. Edit that text and then select and press F9 to refresh the field.
Each of these fields may also have a mergeformat switchbut that isn't necessary so I'll ignore those for the following explanation.
With a caption number that needs the letter A, you need to add a second field so the field codes are as follows
{Seq Figure}{Seq FigureLetter \* ALPHABETIC}
On the following caption you repeat this but add a switch to the first field so it repeats the previous number
{Seq Figure \c}{Seq FigureLetter \* ALPHABETIC}
Later if you need to restart another FigureLetter at A, you add switches to the fields like this
{Seq Figure}{Seq FigureLetter \r 1 \* ALPHABETIC}
{Seq Figure \c}{Seq FigureLetter \* ALPHABETIC}
{Seq Figure \c}{Seq FigureLetter \* ALPHABETIC}
Note that the seq field name you choose only has to be unique - 'FigureLetter' could have been any word other than Figure (although I wouldn't advise using 'Table' because that would likely be used elsewhere)
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Thanks, I’ll take a look at that.
I wasn’t as explicit in my list (sorry), it won’t just be the figure numbers, the real use case will look more like this:
Figure 1: Description of first figure.
Figure 2: Description of second figure.
Figure 3A: Description of third figure, item A.
Figure 3B: Description of third figure, item B.
Not sure if your example works in this case, but I’ll take a look whee we n I’m back on the computer next week. If I understand what you’re saying, I’m assuming that instead of using a list (which would take care of all numbering and the prefix), I would add field codes manually where needed, something like this pseudocode:
Figure [seq number field]: Description of figure.
Figure [seq number field][seq letter field]: Description of figure.
There are also places where the figure is referenced (i.e. “…for further information, see Figure X”). That was simple to do, as I could add a cross reference to that item in the numbered list. Is the same doable using the sequence field codes?