%% %% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed %% %% Example 7-3-5 on page I-533 in "Captions for nonfloating figures and tables". %% %% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach %% %% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions %% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c %% of this license or (at your option) any later version. %% %% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details. %% \documentclass{tlc3exa} \pagestyle{empty} \setcounter{page}{6} \setlength\textwidth{195.0pt} \setcounter{page}{1} \setlength\textheight{18\baselineskip} % for the book examples we shorten the % vertical spaces and use a smaller font for % the heading \makeatletter \renewcommand\section{\@startsection{section}{1}{\z@}% {-1.25ex \@plus-1ex \@minus-.2ex}% {.5ex}% {\normalfont\large\bfseries}} \makeatother %StartShownPreambleCommands \usepackage{caption} %StopShownPreambleCommands \begin{document} \listoffigures \section{Various kinds of figures} Here we mix standard and nonfloating figures. \begin{figure}[b] \centering \fbox{Figure A} \caption{Standard figure}\label{fig:a} \end{figure} \begin{center} \fbox{Figure B} \captionof{figure}[Wrong order] {Nonfloating figure} \label{fig:b} \end{center} Because Figure \ref{fig:a} is forced to the bottom with an optional \texttt{[b]} argument it passes Figure \ref{fig:b} and the ordering in LOF gets out of sync. \end{document}