Override default figure numbering?

[obrl-soil]

Is there a way to override default figure and table numbering? I'm Quarto-ising a book with no native chapter numbering, so the figures and tables should just be numbered 1:n over the whole document in order to match the hard-copy.

I'm using a combination of linked images (not plots) and flextables generated from code chunks.

[mcanouil]

Not clear, what you mean by override default figure and table numbering.

It does not matter that the tables/figures are generated or simply included, if they have captions they will get numbered.

Did you look at https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions?discussions_q=numbering and https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions?discussions_q=numbering?

[rgaiacs]

The problem that @obrl-soil described is cover by the following minimal working example:

_quarto.yml:

project:
  type: book

book:
  title: "Minimal Working Example"
  chapters:
    - index.qmd
    - ch1.qmd
    - ch2.qmd

format:
  html:
    theme: cosmo

ch1.qmd:

# Foo {.unnumbered}

Some text

![First image](cover.png){#fig-foo}

ch2.qmd:

# Bar {.unnumbered}

Some text

![Second image](cover.png){#fig-bar}

The expected HTML output is that figures will numbered 1 and 2 but the observed output is 1 and 1.

My understanding is that Quarto doesn't keep track of the number of figures in each file and because of it can't provide the starting number to Pandoc.

[lauren-obrien]

Yes, thanks.

[mcanouil]

Ok, so the actual question is "how to get continuous figures/tables numbering across chapters?"
I don't think it's currently possible without post-processing with a Lua filter.

[jjallaire]

I don't think even post-processing would work here as we are doing crossref resolution in our own post-processor. So currently there is no way to do this however we will be doing additional work on making crossrefs more customizable soon and we can address this requirement then.

[maia-sh]

Has continuous numbers across (book) sections been resolved in later versions, and if so how?

[mcanouil]

The issue attached to this is still open (you can see it in the right sidebar of this discussion).

• Override default figure numbering? #1818