[texhax] \captions not appearing using float package

T.M. Sommers tmsommers2 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 00:38:23 CEST 2011


On 6/29/2011 11:52 AM, Uwe Ziegenhagen wrote:
> 2011/6/27 T.M. Sommers<tmsommers2 at gmail.com>
>
>> I am sure I'm doing something stupid, but I can't figure out what.  I am
>> using the float package to create a new kind of float.  Each instance of
>> these floats has a \caption.  The caption appears in the list of floats, but
>> it does not appear with the actual float.  If I change to a figure or table
>> instead of the new float type, and change nothing else, the captions do
>> appear as expected.
>
> Well, unless you show us an example where it fails it will be quite
> difficult to help you. Can you prepare a short example, showing the error?

\documentclass[oneside,twocolumn]{book}

\usepackage{float}
\newfloat{foo}{tbp}{foo}

\begin{document}

\listof{foo}{List of Foos}

\chapter{one}

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\begin{foo*}\centering Text in float.\caption{Caption}\end{foo*}
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\end{document}

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T.M. Sommers -- tmsommers2 at gmail.com -- ab2sb


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