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I'm using the "listings" package to write pieces of code (XML, RDF, Java, etc) and I want them to have the same counter of the Figure environment.

For example, 

Listing 1: blablabla
Listing 2: blebleble
Figure 3: bliblibli
Listing 4: blobloblo
Figure 5: blublublu

The purpose of doing it is to change the "Listing" label to "Figure". But I need both environments to share the same counter. How I do it?

Thanks in advance.

Rick
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2 Answers2

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You can make things so the figure environment shares the counter with lstlisting. However, you should ensure that lstlisting environments are floating too, otherwise the numbers could not agree and a figure could appear before a listing with a lower number.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}

\makeatletter
\AtBeginDocument{%
  \let\c@figure\c@lstlisting
  \let\thefigure\thelstlisting
  \let\ftype@lstlisting\ftype@figure % give the floats the same precedence
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}[caption=A listing,float]
a=1
\end{lstlisting}

\begin{lstlisting}[caption=Another,float]
b=2
\end{lstlisting}

\begin{figure}
F
\caption{A figure}
\end{figure}

\begin{lstlisting}[caption=Again,float]
c=3
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}

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Thanks to David Carlisle for noting the need for adjusting \ftype@lstlisting.

If you also want that table shares the counter, add similar instructions.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}

\makeatletter
\AtBeginDocument{%
  \let\c@figure\c@lstlisting
  \let\thefigure\thelstlisting
  \let\c@table\c@lstlisting
  \let\thetable\thelstlisting
  \let\ftype@lstlisting\ftype@figure % give the floats the same precedence
  \let\ftype@table\ftype@figure % give the floats the same precedence
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}[caption=A listing,float]
a=1
\end{lstlisting}

\begin{lstlisting}[caption=Another,float]
b=2
\end{lstlisting}

\begin{figure}
F
\caption{A figure}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}
G
\caption{A table}
\end{table}

\begin{lstlisting}[caption=Again,float]
c=3
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}
egreg
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    @Rick I made a small change; fix your code too. – egreg Nov 18 '13 at 00:48
  • Thanks again. I fixed my code, but I didn't notice what that new line does. Can you give me a brief explanation? – Rick Nov 18 '13 at 01:24
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    @Rick Without the added line, there would still be two independent float queues, one for figures and one for listings, so the order could be wrong, with figure 3 before listing 2. The added line adds listings to the queue for figures. – egreg Nov 18 '13 at 07:48
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    In my document, lstlisting was numbering per section and figure was numbering continuously. This code numbered figure per section. To get around this, assign the figure counter to lstlisting: "... \let\c@lstlisting\c@figure ... \let\thelstlisting\thefigure ... \let\ftype@figure\ftype@lstlisting ..." – badroit May 08 '14 at 20:53
  • @egreg How to share tables' counter with figures and listings? – patryk.beza Jun 06 '17 at 16:28
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    @patryk.beza I added the relevant code. – egreg Jun 06 '17 at 17:26
  • @patryk.beza: Did you have seen my solution as well? The table counter was shared right from the start. –  Jun 06 '17 at 17:57
  • Yes, I did – thanks for asking. Is any of your solutions preferred in any particular situation? – patryk.beza Jun 06 '17 at 18:01
  • @patryk.beza: No, not really. My solution is 'shorter', but needs my xassoccnt package –  Jun 06 '17 at 18:16
  • Why this (\let\c@lstlisting\c@figure ... \let\thelstlisting\thefigure ... \let\ftype@figure\ftype@lstlisting) solution causes You can't use `\relax' after \the with the latest latex and how this can be corrected in a backward compatible way? – Leonid Oct 11 '20 at 20:15
  • @Leonid I just updated TeX LIve and get LaTeX2e <2020-10-01> patch level 1. The two given codes run flawlessly. – egreg Oct 11 '20 at 21:18
  • Here can we change number font to bold? – alper Jan 03 '23 at 13:47
  • @alper \usepackage{caption}; read the manual. – egreg Jan 03 '23 at 18:30
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A different strategy is to use the coupled counters feature from xassocnt which establishes a group of counters that are equally stepped if one of the group members is increased. This works for an 'arbitrary' number of counters.

The \let\ftype@lstlisting\ftype@figure trick is 'stolen' from egreg's answer -- such features are not contained in xassoccnt (yet..., perhaps it will be added one day)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}

\usepackage{xassoccnt}

\DeclareCoupledCountersGroup{figuretablelistings}

% Only needed since listings defines the lstlisting at the begin of the document, not in the preamble 
\makeatletter
\AtBeginDocument{%
  \DeclareCoupledCounters[name=figurelistings]{figure,table,lstlisting}
  \let\ftype@lstlisting\ftype@figure % give the floats the same precedence
}
\makeatother



\begin{document}
\begin{lstlisting}[caption=A listing,float]
a=1
\end{lstlisting}

\begin{lstlisting}[caption=Another,float]
b=2
\end{lstlisting}

\begin{figure}
F
\caption{A figure}
\end{figure}

\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{ll}
  \hline
  \TeX & \LaTeXe \tabularnewline
  \hline
  ConTeXt & Lua\LaTeX  \tabularnewline
  \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{A Table}
\end{table}


\begin{lstlisting}[caption=Again,float]
c=3
\end{lstlisting}
\end{document}

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