I have finished the book I was writing (Programming in MATLAB). The book is written in greek. Now, I am trying to generate a multilingual index (greek + english) using makeindex package without success. Can you give me any suggestion on which package do I have to use?

Thanks in advance.

\newcounter{assumpt}[chapter]

which keeps the total of the assumptions in a chapter. Then I changed the last two lines of the above code to:

{\usecounter{assump}}\addtocounter{assump}{\value{assumpt}}}
{\end{list}\setcounter{assumpt}{\value{assump}}}

Thanks though!

I’m a little stuck with list numbering. I’m creating a list of assumptions in a paper. However, I would like the assumption counter to reset ONLY when the chapter number changes. In other words, I’d like the text to read:

Chapter 1, Section 1
~
Assumption 1.1
Assumption 1.2
~
Chapter 1, Section 2
~
Assumption 1.3
Assumption 1.4
~
Chapter 2, Section 1
~
Assumption 2.1
~

Currently though, the assumption counter resets every time I call the assumption environment. Here’s my code for the environment:

\newcounter{assump}
\newenvironment{assumption}
{\begin{list}{Assumption \arabic{chapter}.\arabic{assump}:}
{\usecounter{assump}}}
{\end{list}}

I’ve tried adding “[chapter]” to the end of the counter definition, but it still doesn’t ensure that the counter is reset only when the chapter changes. Any ideas? Thanks!

Thanks for your question, which was rather tricky to answer . The problem is, that you first have to run through the document in order to know the number of figures.
I propose you write a macro with the code given below, so you don’t mess up your tex-file:

1. Open a new text-file and call numberfigure.sty.
2. Copy-paste the code below into the file and save it.
3. Add the numberfigure package to your Latex-document.
4. Use \pageref{NumberFigures} to print the number of figures.

I have to admit, the solution is not very nice and I would be happy if someone who is familiar with macros would post a better solution.

Here is the macro code for numberfigure.sty:

\newcounter{myfigure}
\setcounter{myfigure}{0}
\newcommand{\mycaption}[1]{
\stepcounter{myfigure}
\caption{#1}}

\def\numberfigures@putlabel{\addtocounter{myfigure}{0}%
\immediate\write\@auxout{\string
\newlabel{NumberFigures}{{}{\themyfigure}}}%
\addtocounter{myfigure}{1}}
\AtEndDocument{%
\clearpage\numberfigures@putlabel}%
\endinput

Cheers,
Tom

I am writing a book that contains a certain number of tables and figures.

I would like to include the total number of figures and the total number of tables in the front page.

I was wondering if there is way to do so automatically.

Thanks in advance.

Your last tip can solve Troy C.’ s problem :

To change chapter number each time changing part, add in your preamble
\makeatletter
\@addtoreset{chapter}{part}
\makeatother

What you would need to do is the following.
Define a new counter:
\newcouter{myfigure}
and tell Latex how you want your figure counter to look like:
\renewcommand{\thefigure}{\addtocounter{myfigure}{1}\thesection.\themyfigure}%

If you want Latex to reset the counter everytime you start a new chapter you need to add this piece of code:
\makeatletter
\@addtoreset{myfigure}{chapter}
\makeatother

Hope this is what you were looking for,
Tom