Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:

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

IIUC, when you use the report class, things work fine, but when you use
your my-report class, they don't - is that correct?

>>
>>
>> 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.
>
> (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}")))
>
>
> 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.
>

AFAICT, the difference between report and my-report is that the report class
produces parts from the top-level headlines, instead of chapters.

Not sure why there is such a big difference in page numbers. How many
top-level headlines do you have? I imagine a part adds a couple of
pages, so about 40 top-level headlines would account for the
difference in page numbers.

> Using just the 'report' class it does generate a '*.lof' file, and this is it -
>
> ...
> \contentsline {figure}{\numberline {8.1}{\ignorespaces The four principles of person-centred care \parencite {0055}\relax }}{30}{figure.caption.25}
> ...
>
> Which is obviously useless for my needs.

Well, yes: the page numbers are going to be off.

So you have just one figure, correct?

>
> 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.
>

The preamble and the first few lines after \begin{document} should be instructive.

Meanwhile, I have a class like your my-report class: no parts (no para/subparas either but
I can't see that that would make any difference):

("report-sans-parts" "\\documentclass[11pt]{report}"
  ("\\chapter{%s}" . "\\chapter*{%s}")
  ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
  ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
  ("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}"))

I modified my test file to use that:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+LATEX_CLASS: report-sans-parts
#+LATEX: \listoffigures{}
#+T
* 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
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

It still works fine (see attached PDF).