Labeling Equations

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Labeling Equations

For most scientific papers, some equations need to be labeled for reference, and there is a very specific way to format these labels. Typically if I'm not mistaken, the label goes to the right of the equation while the equation is centered in the document. How do you do this with Pages?

Also, while on the subject of labels, what is the best way to add a Caption to a figure. Most of the time I create a table, and then add the reference. The problem with this is the Figure # doesn't auto increment, and nor is it automatically managed like LaTeX or Word. Plus it simply takes a while to get the formatting correct.

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Posted on Jan 31, 2009 8:55 AM

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Answer 1

KOENIG Yvan

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Jan 31, 2009 10:30 AM in response to blimpyboy

blimpyboy wrote:
and nor is it automatically managed like LaTeX or Word.

Pages is not supposed to clone LaTeX or Word !

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 31 janvier 2009 19:30:34)

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blimpyboy Author

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Jan 31, 2009 11:12 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

LOL..... I understand that. But referencing figures in a document isn't that complicated and is used by a lot of people. I'm not looking to debate Pages vs Word vs LaTeX. What I'm asking is:

- How do you label equations?
- How to you give figures a caption?

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dwb

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Jan 31, 2009 3:18 PM in response to blimpyboy

Pages doesn't have an automatic label function - if this is an important feature to you use the feedback option in Pages to request it. I've simulated the function quite simply and as long as the document isn't too long it works okay. Insert the formula, graphic or whatever and in the text type your label text sans number. In my draft I insert the graphic as in inline object with the label text immediately following.

Now that I've finished all my editing I go back and label the graphics. Starting at the top of the document I search for my label text which jumps me to my first label. I select the graphic and make it floating. Now I insert a text block, type my label, format the text and resize the text block. The last prep step is to copy the text block so I simply have to paste it for the rest of my graphics. I place the text block beneath the graphic, group the two, and place the grouped object in the document where it belongs. Finally, I edit my generic label text in the document to match the label I just created. Now I can do another find, paste the text block, etc.

It sounds worse than it is and for me doing this with about 10 graphics is worth not being forced into using Word. Oddly enough, being a programmer and having cut my teeth doing word processing on a Digital PDP-8, I never did warm up to LaTeX.

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Jan 31, 2009 5:45 PM in response to blimpyboy

I suggest a grouped image box and text box for the caption. Configured however you like it, then pasted in-line in your main text.

Make up a sample combination as floating objects, grouped, pasted into your text as inline and edited as you go by replacing the image and the text.

There is no way I know of automatically numbering the illustrations, but if you use a set style for the caption and manually add a Fig. No. you can get Pages to add it to a T.O.C.

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