Re: List of figures

[Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>]

Hello,

tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:

> I'm trying to generate a list of figures for LaTeX export.  I thought to
> use #+TOC: figures, but this didn't work.
>
> The Org Export Reference Documentation has this:
>
>   “TOC” keyword. It accepts three common values: “headlines”, “tables” and
>   “listings”. Also, “headlines” value can have an optional numeric
>   argument to specify depth of the contents.
>
>   See org-export-collect-headlines, org-export-collect-tables,
>   org-export-collect-figures and org-export-collect-listings.
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1) Is there a reason that the TOC keyword doesn't accept the value
> "figures"? The reference to org-export-collect-figures suggests that it
> should accept this value.

I had planned to allow "figures" for TOC, but I realized it was
difficult to define what a "figure" is outside of LaTeX.

There is the infrastructure, but it isn't used yet in back-ends.

> 2) Is there some other way to generate a list of figures for LaTeX
> export?

See Rasmus' answer.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou