[pdftex] Hyperref and resetting counters...

[Wilson, Peter R]

    I don't know if it will help but you could try the ccaption (note the double c) package from CTAN as it lets you have continuation captions which seems to be what you are after. I don't know how/if it works with hyperref.

Peter W.

> ----------
> From: 	Jody M. Klymak[SMTP:jklymak at oce.orst.edu]
> Sent: 	Friday, January 05, 2001 1:29 PM
> To: 	pdftex at tug.org
> Subject: 	[pdftex] Hyperref and resetting counters...
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I appologize if this isn't really appropriate for the pdftex list, but I
> figure this is the best group of hyperref users....
> 
> I want two figures to have the same figure number w/o subnumbering, so I
> simply decrease the figure counter:
> 
> \begin{figure*}[htbp]
>   \begin{center}
>     \includegraphics{fig1}
>   \end{center}
>     \caption{Blah blah blah}
> \label{fig:fig21}
> \end{figure*}
> 
> \addtocounter{figure}{-1}
> 
> \begin{figure*}[htbp]
>   \begin{center}
>     \includegraphics{fig2}
>   \end{center}
>     \caption{Continued.}
> \label{fig:fig2}
> \end{figure*}
> 
> This works great but hyperref gets upset:
> 
> ERROR: pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier
> (name{figure.5})
> --- TeX said ---
> has been already used, duplicate ignored <to be read again>
> \endgroup  l.619 \clearpage                  <./fig2.jpg>] [9 --- HELP ---
> No help available
> 
> This error is unfortunate, because the document typesets perfectly, and the
> hyper references work fine.  Am I doing something wrong?  Is there a better
> way to get what I want (I know about subfloat, but I don't want the figures
> named fig. 1a, 1b etc because each figure has six frames already called fig.
> 1a-1l.)
> 
> Thanks,  Jody
> 
> 
> 
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