Btukfyl

Is there a way to supress the numberings of subfigures within subfigures?

Currently, I have something like the following:

begin{figure}

  subfigure{

    subfigure{...}

    subfigure{...}

    subfigure{...}

  }

  subfigure {

     ...

  }

  ...

end{figure}

So I have the entire figure, within which I have subfigures, which consist of more figures (i.e. subsubfigures). Each subfigure contains 9 subsubfigures and I have 5 subfigures. Because each subsubfigure and each subfigure get numbered and labeled, I get a Counter too large error because there are more than a-z figures.

I only really care about the numbering and labeling on the subfigures (i.e. I don't care about the numbering on the subsubfigures). Is there a way to suppress the numbering on the subsubfigures so that I only have subfigures a through e that are labeled and thus also avoid the error?

Because you don't need labels and numbers of subsubfigures, and I guess you don't need captions as well, you could simply use minipage environments or parbox for those figures instead of nesting subfigures.

Further, if you use the subfigure package, which is outdated, you might consider to use the newer subfig or subcaption package instead.

A possible solution with the already mentioned »subcaption« package (shipped with caption).

documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}

usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

usepackage{babel}

usepackage[includeheadfoot,margin=3cm]{geometry}

usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf,tableposition=top]{caption}

usepackage[font=footnotesize]{subcaption}

usepackage{blindtext}



%DeclareCaptionSubType*[arabic]{figure}

%captionsetup[subfigure]{labelformat=simple,labelsep=colon}



title{Two subfigures without a caption}

author{Myx}



begin{document}

  maketitle



  blindtext



  begin{figure}[!ht]

    centering

    begin{subfigure}[b]{0.45textwidth}

      centering

      rule{6.4cm}{3.6cm}

    end{subfigure}

    hfill

    begin{subfigure}[b]{0.45textwidth}

      centering

      rule{6.4cm}{3.6cm}

    end{subfigure}

    caption{Dummy figures}label{fig:dummy}

  end{figure}



  blindtext

end{document}

A very simple solution to suppress numbering in captions is to use caption*{} instead of caption{}. This works in figures and in subfigures also.