Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

> Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:
>
>> Peter Frings <peter.frings@agfa.com> writes:
>>
>>>> On 07 Sep 2016, at 12:52, Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I'm having great difficulty in being able to generate and populate a
>>>> 'list of figures' in my orgmode-2-latex document. I currently have this
>>>> as a figure in my org-mode file -
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> However, when I generate the pdf using xelatex all that it shows for my
>>>> list of figures is 'List of Figures'!
>>>> 
>>>> So how can I get the list of figures to be populated please?
>>>
>>> To get the list of figures (or any other reference, for that matter), you have to typeset your
>>> document twice. The first time, tex build a list of figures (in a separate file, with .lof
>>> extension); the second time, it inserts that list where the \listoffigures{} is. This is common to
>>> tex: you have to typeset twice to get the references and lists correct.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks Peter. But I'm typesetting it at least three times. But its just
>> not building the list of figures.
>>
>> However, if I run 'mklatex' on my source file it generates a 'foo.lof',
>> but doesn't actually populate the 'list of figures'! And 'mklatex'
>> doesn't finish either! But then I'm just learning how to actually use
>> it.
>>
>

Thanks for this Nick, here is the first part of my reply, a preliminary feed-back.

> I start with a lof.org file that looks like this (I deleted your citation
> and changed the path of the image since I don't have either of those locally):
>
> #+LATEX: \listoffigures{}
>
> * Foo
>
> Some text.
>
> #+CAPTION: The four principles of person-centred care 
> #+ATTR_LaTeX: :width 0.5\textwidth :float t :placement [H]
> #+LABEL: fig:four-principles
> [[../images/one.png]]
>
>
> Some more text.
> * Bar
>
>
> I exported and got this:
>
> % Created 2016-09-07 Wed 15:59
> % Intended LaTeX compiler: pdflatex
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \usepackage{grffile}
> \usepackage{longtable}
> \usepackage{wrapfig}
> \usepackage{rotating}
> \usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
> \usepackage{amsmath}
> \usepackage{textcomp}
> \usepackage{amssymb}
> \usepackage{capt-of}
> \usepackage{hyperref}
> \usepackage{minted}
> \author{Nick Dokos}
> \date{\today}
> \title{}
> \hypersetup{
>  pdfauthor={Nick Dokos},
>  pdftitle={},
>  pdfkeywords={},
>  pdfsubject={},
>  pdfcreator={Emacs 25.1.50.1 (Org mode 8.3.5)}, 
>  pdflang={English}}
> \begin{document}
>
> \tableofcontents
>
> \listoffigures{}
>
> \section{Foo}
> \label{sec:org8f4d5cc}
>
> Some text.
>
> \begin{figure}[H]
> \centering
> \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{../images/one.png}
> \caption{\label{fig:org0cc86dc}
> The four principles of person-centred care}
> \end{figure}
>
>
> Some more text.
> \section{Bar}
> \label{sec:orgb6d5c42}
> \end{document}
>
> Then xelatex'ed twice (shell escape is for minted - you may not need it):
>
>    xelatex --shell-escape lof.tex
>    # at this point, lof.lof and lof.toc exist and lof.lof contains
>    # \contentsline {figure}{\numberline {1}{\ignorespaces The four principles of person-centred care}}{1}{figure.1}
>    # then again to incorporate them into the output
>    xelatex --shell-escape lof.tex
>
> The list of figures is present and complete (see attached PDF).
>

Your setup is working as you say even though I'm using the report class,
and it *does* generate the list of figures.

>
>
> If that does not work for you, where exactly does it break?

But I am using the 'my-report' class which is defined as this in my init.org file.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(add-to-list 'org-latex-classes
             '("my-report"
               "\\documentclass{report}
               [NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES]"
               ("\\chapter{%s}" . "\\chapter*{%s}")
               ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
               ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
               ("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}")
               ("\\paragraph{%s}" . "\\paragraph*{%s}")
               ("\\subparagraph{%s}" . "\\subparagraph*{%s}")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Using this class my main working file is exported and built into 395
pages, however if I use the 'report' class it works out to about 483
pages.

Using just the 'report' class it does generate a '*.lof' file, and this is it -

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
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--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Which is obviously useless for my needs.

Tomorrow I'm going to be working on what differences there are between
the '*.tex' file built using the report class and my working document in
'my-report' class, and try and build into my 'my-report' class the
differences and try and generate some useful 8.lof files.

Thanks
Sharon.
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