Count number of figures, tables and citations in report class

Question

I'm using report documentclass and trying to use totcount for counting figures, tables and references, but there are two problems:

1. Figures and tables counters are reset for each chapter, so \total{figure} and \total{table} is displaying 0. How to find the total count of figures and tables throughout the document?

2. A solution for counting references given in totcount documentation

   \newtotcounter{citesnum}
   \def\oldcite{} \let\oldcite=\cite
   \def\cite{\stepcounter{citesnum}\oldcite}
   

   isn't working for me since I have several \cite{} commands for single reverence. Is there a way to work around this one as well?

Answer 1

You can use auxiliary counters for figures and tables and patch \chapter (using the etoolbox package, for example) to add the value \value{figure} (resp. \value{table}) to the respective auxiliary counter; a similar procedure can be applied for tables; then, at the end of the document this operation is once again performed and the result is written to the .aux file in two macros that hold the total values:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{etoolbox}

\newcounter{totfigures}
\newcounter{tottables}

\providecommand\totfig{} 
\providecommand\tottab{}

\makeatletter
\AtEndDocument{%
  \addtocounter{totfigures}{\value{figure}}%
  \addtocounter{tottables}{\value{table}}%
  \immediate\write\@mainaux{%
    \string\gdef\string\totfig{\number\value{totfigures}}%
    \string\gdef\string\tottab{\number\value{tottables}}%
  }%
}
\makeatother

\pretocmd{\chapter}{\addtocounter{totfigures}{\value{figure}}\setcounter{figure}{0}}{}{}
\pretocmd{\chapter}{\addtocounter{tottables}{\value{table}}\setcounter{table}{0}}{}{}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Test Chapter One}
There are \totfig\ figures and \tottab\ tables in this document.
\begin{figure}FA\caption{test FA}\end{figure}
\begin{table}TA\caption{test TA}\end{table}
\begin{figure}FB\caption{test FB}\end{figure}

\chapter{Test Chapter Two}
\begin{figure}FC\caption{test FC}\end{figure}
\begin{figure}FD\caption{test FD}\end{figure}
\begin{table}TB\caption{test TB}\end{table}
\begin{figure}FE\caption{test FE}\end{figure}

\chapter{Test Chapter Three}
\begin{table}TC\caption{test TC}\end{table}
\begin{figure}FF\caption{test FF}\end{figure}
\begin{table}TD\caption{test TD}\end{table}

\end{document}

You need to run at least twice the code.

After testing, I noticed that, for some reason, if some chapter does not contain any figures, the counting is wrong. By appending \setcounter{figure}{0} to the \pretocmd code, I get the correct results. My guess is that the figure counter holds the value of the previous chapter, when no figures have been defined in the current chapter. I may be wrong though. In any case, resetting the counter when starting the chapter will not produce any unexpected results.

Answer 2

This appears to work for me:

\documentclass{report}
% http://texblog.org/2012/04/16/counting-the-total-number-of/
\usepackage{totcount}
\newtotcounter{citenum}
\def\oldcite{}
\let\oldcite=\bibcite
\def\bibcite{\stepcounter{citenum}\oldcite}

\usepackage[figure,table]{totalcount}
% different from totcount, and not on CTAN. Found at
% http://www.mrunix.de/forums/showpost.php?p=257537&postcount=10
% Reference: http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9028

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@article {MCOSW,
author = "Hugh Glaser and Afraz Jafri and Ian Millard",
title = "Managing co-reference on the semantic web",
journal = "WWW2009 Workshop: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW2009)",
month = "April",
year = "April 2009",
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

\chapter{One}

Some citations: \cite{MCOSW}, \cite{MCOSW}, \cite{MCOSW}.
This document contains \totalfigures{} figures, \totaltables{} tables, and
\total{citenum} reference (possibly with multiple citations).

\begin{table}
\caption{Table caption}
\centering Table content
\end{table}
\begin{figure}
\centering Figure content
\caption{Figure caption}
\end{figure}

\chapter{Two}

\begin{table}
\caption{Table caption}
\centering Table content
\end{table}
\begin{figure}
\centering Figure content
\caption{Figure caption}
\end{figure}

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{\jobname}

\end{document}

Answer 3

The totalcount package handles this easily

% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[figure,table]{totalcount}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Test Chapter One}
There are \totalfigures\ figures and \totaltables\ tables in this document.
\begin{figure}FA\caption{test FA}\end{figure}
\begin{table}TA\caption{test TA}\end{table}
\begin{figure}FB\caption{test FB}\end{figure}

\chapter{Test Chapter Two}
\begin{figure}FC\caption{test FC}\end{figure}
\begin{figure}FD\caption{test FD}\end{figure}
\begin{table}TB\caption{test TB}\end{table}
\begin{figure}FE\caption{test FE}\end{figure}

\chapter{Test Chapter Three}
\begin{table}TC\caption{test TC}\end{table}
\begin{figure}FF\caption{test FF}\end{figure}
\begin{table}TD\caption{test TD}\end{table}

\end{document}