Place all figures last without changing numbering

Question

I have a question regarding the topic: Place all floats last without changing numbering

How can I modify the solution so that it works for figures, inclusive a List of Figures? I have tried the package endfloat for my figures but have encountered certain issues hence why I am looking for an alternative way of putting all my figures in a separate Chapter at the end of my document but before the supplement.

Is there a possibility to include multiple figures in format of a table?

\begin{figure*}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{lc}
%Input image&
\includegraphics[width=1cm]{example-image}&
\includegraphics[width=1cm]{example-image}\\
%Aligned face&
\includegraphics[width=1cm]{example-image-a}&
\includegraphics[width=1cm]{example-image-a}\\
\end{tabular}}{Fifth image}{fig:tabfig}
\end{figure*}

Answer 1

Try this code.

UPDATE Begin numbering the figures with .1 in each section.

Move all the figures to the end using the command figfrom (one optional parameter and three mandatory: #1 (opt) figure configuration, #2 figure name, #3 caption, #4 label) within the environment fromsection{<section number of the figures>}

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
%%*****************  adapted from <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
%%  https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3491/place-all-floats-last-without-changing-numbering
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{float}
\newcounter{savesection}
\newenvironment{fromsection}[1]{% #1 section number
    \setcounter{figure}{0}%
    \setcounter{savesection}{\value{section}}%
    \setcounter{section}{#1}%
    \renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}}}
{\setcounter{section}{\value{savesection}}}
\newcommand{\figfrom}[4][]{% #1 (opt) figure specs, #2 figure name, #3 caption, #4 label
\begin{figure}[H]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[#1]{#2}
    \caption{#3}
    \label{#4}
\end{figure}
}
\renewcommand{\thefigure}{\arabic{section}.\arabic{figure}}
%% *****************************************
\begin{document}
\listoffigures

\section{Introduction}
Please see figures~\ref{fig:one} and \ref{fig:two} in section~\ref{app:allimg}.

\section{Other stuff}
See also figure~\ref{fig:three} on page~\pageref{fig:three}.        

\section{All figures together}\label{app:allimg}

\begin{fromsection}{1}
    \figfrom[width=50pt]{example-image-a}{First image}{fig:one}
    \figfrom[scale=0.5]{example-image-b}{Second image}{fig:two}
\end{fromsection}

\begin{fromsection}{2}
    \figfrom[height=270pt]{example-image-c}{Third image}{fig:three}
\end{fromsection}

\appendix
\section{Supplement}


\end{document}

Answer 2

You can maintain a stack where tokens for creating floats are accumulated.

In the example below

• a token-stack is created via \NewStack{⟨macro⟩}.

• tokens are appended to a token-stack via \AppendToStack{⟨macro⟩}{⟨tokens⟩}.

• the tokens saved in a stack are "flushed" and the stack is emptied via \FlushAndClearStack{⟨macro⟩}.

• the command

  \StuffAndCountersToStack{⟨macro⟩}%
                        {⟨counters to step at the time of carrying out \StuffAndCountersToStack⟩}%
                        {⟨counters to reset and restore at the time of delivering the ⟨tokens⟩⟩}%
                        {⟨tokens⟩}%

  adds to the stack ⟨macro⟩

  • directive to open a local scope
  • directives to reset ⟨counters to reset and restore at the time of delivering the ⟨tokens⟩⟩,
  • directives to reset \the⟨counter⟩ and \theH⟨counter⟩ of ⟨counters to reset and restore at the time of delivering the ⟨tokens⟩⟩,
  • directives to adjust \the⟨counter⟩ and \theH⟨counter⟩ of ⟨counters to step at the time of carrying out \StuffAndCountersToStack⟩
  • ⟨tokens⟩
  • directives to restore ⟨counters to reset and restore at the time of delivering the ⟨tokens⟩⟩,
  • directive to close the local scope

  and steps ⟨counters to step at the time of carrying out \StuffAndCountersToStack⟩.

• the command

  \VerbatimToScantokensStuffAndCountersToStack{⟨macro⟩}%
                        {⟨counters to step at the time of carrying out \StuffAndCountersToStack⟩}%
                        {⟨counters to reset and restore at the time of delivering the ⟨verbatimized material⟩ via \scantokens⟩}%
                        |⟨verbatimized material⟩|%

  does almost the same as the command \StuffAndCountersToStack. The difference is: The ⟨tokens⟩-argument is read and tokenized in verbatim-catcode-régime and therefore called ⟨verbatimized material⟩. Instead of just adding ⟨tokens⟩ to the stack ⟨macro⟩, directives are added to the stack ⟨macro⟩ to pass ⟨verbatimized material⟩ to \scantokens.

\makeatletter
% With older LaTeX-releases uncomment the following line:
%\RequirePackage{xparse}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\@ifdefinable\MapCommaListToMacro{%
  \let\MapCommaListToMacro=\clist_map_function:nN 
}%
\ExplSyntaxOff
\@ifdefinable\stopromannumeral{\chardef\stopromannumeral=`\^^00}%
\newcommand\unexpandedlocalsetcounter[1]{%
  \unexpanded{\localsetcounter{#1}}{\number\value{#1}}%
  \def\expandafter\noexpand\csname theH#1\endcsname{\csname theH#1\endcsname}%
  \def\expandafter\noexpand\csname the#1\endcsname{\csname the#1\endcsname}%
}%
\newcommand\unexpandedadjustcounter[1]{%
  \def\expandafter\noexpand\csname theH#1\endcsname{\csname theH#1\endcsname}%
  \def\expandafter\noexpand\csname the#1\endcsname{\csname the#1\endcsname}%
}%
\newcommand\unexpandedsetcounter[1]{%
  \unexpanded{\setcounter{#1}}{\number\value{#1}}%
}%
\@ifdefinable\localsetcounter{%
  \DeclareRobustCommand\localsetcounter[2]{%
    \csname c@#1\endcsname=#2\relax
  }%
}%
\@ifdefinable\localstepcounter{%
  \newcommand\localstepcounter[1]{%
    \advance\csname c@#1\endcsname by 1 %
  }%
}%
\newcommand\PassFirstToSecond[2]{#2{#1}}%
\newcommand\Exchange[2]{#2#1}%
%
% If this was for a package, checking whether stack-macro is defined
% could be implemented for the sake of error-checking.
\NewDocumentCommand\NewStack{m}{\newcommand#1{}}%
\NewDocumentCommand\FlushAndClearStack{m}{#1\global\let#1\empty}%
\NewDocumentCommand\AppendToStack{mm}{\xdef#1{\unexpanded\expandafter{#1#2}}}%
\newcommand\StuffAndCountersToStack[4]{%
  \@bsphack
  \begingroup
  \protected@edef\@tempa{\MapCommaListToMacro{#3}{\unexpandedlocalsetcounter}}%
  \MapCommaListToMacro{#2}{\localstepcounter}%
  \protected@edef\@tempb{\MapCommaListToMacro{#2}{\unexpandedadjustcounter}}%
  \expandafter\endgroup\expandafter\PassFirstToSecond\expandafter{%
    \romannumeral
    \expandafter\Exchange\expandafter{\expandafter{\expandafter\begingroup
    \romannumeral\expandafter\expandafter\expandafter\stopromannumeral\expandafter
     \@tempa\@tempb#4}}{%
       \stopromannumeral
       \begingroup
       \protected@edef\@tempa{\MapCommaListToMacro{#3}{\unexpandedsetcounter}}%
       \expandafter\endgroup\expandafter\Exchange\expandafter{\@tempa}%
    }%
    \endgroup
  }{\AppendToStack{#1}}%
  \MapCommaListToMacro{#2}{\stepcounter}%
  \@esphack
}%
%=== \VerbatimToScantokensStuffAndCountersToStack ========================
\NewDocumentCommand\VerbatimToScantokensStuffAndCountersToStack{mmm}{%
  \@bsphack
  \begingroup
  \catcode`\^^I=12\relax
  \InnerVerbatimToScantokensStuffAndCountersToStack{#1}{#2}{#3}%
}%
\begingroup
\def\InnerVerbatimToScantokensStuffAndCountersToStack#1{%
  \endgroup
  \NewDocumentCommand\InnerVerbatimToScantokensStuffAndCountersToStack{mmm+v}{%
    \endgroup
    \expandafter\@gobble\StuffAndCountersToStack{##1}{##2}{##3}{%
      \begingroup\newlinechar=\endlinechar
      \scantokens{\endgroup##4#1}%
    }%
  }%
}%
\catcode`\%=12\relax
\InnerVerbatimToScantokensStuffAndCountersToStack{%}%
%=== End of code of \VerbatimToScantokensStuffAndCountersToStack =========
\makeatother
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{float}
% Load hyperref after float !
\usepackage{hyperref}
\NewStack{\laterfloats}
\renewcommand{\thefigure}{\thesection.\arabic{figure}}
\csname @ifundefined\endcsname{theHfigure}{}{%
  \renewcommand{\theHfigure}{\theHsection.\arabic{figure}}%
}%
\csname @addtoreset\endcsname{figure}{section}
% \ref without hyperlink:
\csname @ifpackageloaded\endcsname{hyperref}{%
  \newcommand\myref{\ref}%
}{%
  \newcommand*\myref{\ref}%
}%
\begin{document}
\listoffigures
\section*{Introduction}
Please see figure~\ref{fig:one} and \ref{fig:two} and \ref{fig:three}
and \ref{fig:four} in Appendix~\ref{app:allimg}.
\section{First section}
Delayed figure~\ref{fig:one} and delayed figure~\ref{fig:two} are defined in this section.
\StuffAndCountersToStack{\laterfloats}{figure}{section,figure}{%
  \begin{figure}[H]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=50pt]{example-image-a}%
    \caption{First image}%
    \label{fig:one}%
  \end{figure}%
}%
\StuffAndCountersToStack{\laterfloats}{figure}{section,figure}{%
  \begin{figure}[H]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{example-image-b}%
    \caption{Second image}%
    \label{fig:two}%
  \end{figure}%
}%
\section{Second section}
Delayed figure~\ref{fig:three} is defined in this section.
\VerbatimToScantokensStuffAndCountersToStack{\laterfloats}%
                                            {figure}%
                                            {section,figure}%
                                            ?%<-start of verbatim-argument
  \begin{figure}[H]
    \centering
    \begin{tabular}{|c|}
    \hline\
    \begin{minipage}{.27\textwidth}
% Indenting of source code does matter with verbatimized arguments!
\begin{verbatim}
1 AB % & _^~# } {
2 AB % & _^~# } {
\end{verbatim}
    \end{minipage}
    \\\hline
    \end{tabular}
    \caption{figure with verbatim}%
    \label{fig:three}%
  \end{figure}%
? %<-end of verbatim-argument
\section{Third section}
Delayed figure~\ref{fig:four} is defined in this section.
\StuffAndCountersToStack{\laterfloats}{figure}{section,figure}{%
  \begin{figure}[H]
    \centering
    \includegraphics[height=240pt]{example-image-c}%
    \caption{Third image}%
    \label{fig:four}%
  \end{figure}%
}%
\appendix
\section{An appendix}\label{app:a}
\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
A figure in appendix \myref{app:a}
\caption{A figure in appendix \myref{app:a}}
\end{figure}
\subsection{A subsection of appendix \myref{app:a}}\label{app:allimg}
Here come all the delayed floats.
\FlushAndClearStack{\laterfloats}
\end{document}

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I suppose it would be only a few lines in expl3, but I am not yet so fluent in expl3 that I could type the appropriate expl3 code in a few minutes.

There are many expl3-luminaries here, whom I could not hold a candle and who would of the cuff do a much better job than I could do by fiddling around and reading interface3.pdf for hours.
But I "borrowed" expl3's \clist_map_function:nN for mapping elements of comma-lists as arguments to macros. ;-)
(I also have my own "old school code" for this sort of things, but pasting that here would imply another huge load of confusing code.)