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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: List of figures
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:18:58 +0100
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To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
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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:
>
>   =E2=80=9CTOC=E2=80=9D keyword. It accepts three common values: =E2=80=
=9Cheadlines=E2=80=9D, =E2=80=9Ctables=E2=80=9D and
>   =E2=80=9Clistings=E2=80=9D. Also, =E2=80=9Cheadlines=E2=80=9D 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,

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Nicolas Goaziou