In latex, you can begin and end certain environments. If you assign a label within such an environment, you can then refer back to whatever you created in the environment. This all takes place using latex commands, so you have to look at the source code. \noindent Here's an example of a figure: % [thp] tells latex to put the figure at the ``top'' of the page, or % right ``here'', or on a new ``page'' (I think that's what the ``p'' % stands for...anyways...also, ``angle'' rotates the figure (positive or % negative angles are allowed), and ``scale'' scales the figure...you can % scale greater than or less than 1.0 (for a larger or smaller figure % respectively) \begin{figure}[thp] \includegraphics[angle=-10,scale=1.15]{mickey.eps} \caption[The dendritic growth velocity as a function of supersaturation in the $NH_4Cl-H_2O$ system, at $25^\circ C$, as reported in Chan et al.]{The dendritic growth velocity as a function of supersaturation in the $NH_4Cl-H_2O$ system, at $25^\circ C$, as reported in \cite{Chan:76}\footnotemark. This graph has been included for comparison to the simulated velocities in Fig. \ref{fig:potwell}.} \label{fig:kahlsml} \end{figure} \noindent The numerical supersaturations used ($\pi\approx .3$), were higher than those of the \footnotetext{Recall that the units of $\pi$ are those used by Kahlweit $ \bigl(\frac{C_l - C_o}{\chi_l}\bigr)$ and not those used in this study $\bigl(\frac{C_l - C_o}{C_l}\bigr)$. See section \ref{pde_derv}.} experiments\footnote{From Fig. \ref{fig:patt_to_matrx_horz}, it seems that these supersaturations correspond to a system at $\sim 50-60^\circ C$.} \noindent (that was figure \ref{fig:kahlsml}) Sorry about the supersaturation chat, but it shows a footnote in both the figure caption and in regular text. You'll note that the figure caption appearing here is different from the one appearing in the list of figures. In the latex source code, this is done by putting the ``real'' one in curly brackets, preceded by the ``list-of-figures'' one in square brackets (take a look and see). You may want to do this because the regular caption is too long to list in front, or a better reason is because certain things can't be ``sent'' to the list of figures (funny things like footnote numbers, citation numbers, vector symbols, etc)...I'm sure there are elegant ways to force the issue, but I chose to simply omit these difficult entities from the list-of-figures caption. The footnote in the ``real'' caption is also kind of tough...you have to leave a ``footnote mark'' in the correct spot in the caption, and include the ``footnote text'' at some later point, after you're out of the delicate little figure/caption environment. \medskip \noindent Here's an example of a table: (in fact, it's table \ref{table:data}) \begin{table}[thp] \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{ || l | r | r | r | r | r | r | r ||} \hline $T(^\circ C)$ & $\chi_{th}$ & $\chi_l$ & $\pi_{th}$ & $v_{th}$ ($\frac{cm}{sec}$) & $\eta(\frac{(dyn)(sec)}{cm^2}$ & $D \times 10^5 (\frac{cm^2}{sec})$ & $\epsilon$ \\ \hline 30 & 36.49 & 29.38 & .101 & .117 & .7975 & 2.15 & .213 \\ \hline 25 & 34.20 & 28.36 & .082 & .076 & .8904 & 1.94 & .201 \\ \hline 20 & 32.36 & 27.33 & .069 & .051 & 1.002 & 1.74 & .195 \\ \hline 15 & 30.68 & 26.31 & .059 & .030 & 1.139 & 1.55 & .185 \\ \hline 10 & 29.22 & 25.28 & .053 & .018 & 1.307 & 1.36 & .177 \\ \hline 6.5 & 28.0 & 24.56 & .0456 & .0088 & 1.45 & 1.22 & .151 \\ \hline 3.5 & 27.0 & 23.95 & .0401 & .0079 & 1.59 & 1.11 & .151 \\ \hline 0.5 & 26.0 & 23.33 & .0348 & .0044 & 1.76 & 1.01 & .133 \\ \hline -2.5 & 25.0 & 22.72 & .0295 & .0041 & 1.96 & 0.91 & .138 \\ \hline \end{tabular} \caption{\protect Data}\label{table:data} \end{center} \end{table} \noindent Here's a multiline equation (you don't have to label it): \begin{multline*} \frac{{\partial}C}{{\partial}t} = D_o\biggl\{ [1 - (1 - d_{xx})\Phi]\frac{{\partial}^2C}{{\partial}x^2} + d_{xx}\frac{{\partial}\Phi}{{\partial}x}\frac{{\partial}C}{{\partial}x} + d_{xy}\Phi\frac{{\partial}^2C}{{\partial}y{\partial}x} + d_{xy}\frac{{\partial}\Phi}{{\partial}x}\frac{{\partial}C}{{\partial}y} \\ + [1 - (1 - d_{yy})\Phi]\frac{{\partial}^2C}{{\partial}y^2} + d_{yy}\frac{{\partial}\Phi}{{\partial}y}\frac{{\partial}C}{{\partial}y} + d_{yx}\Phi\frac{{\partial}^2C}{{\partial}x{\partial}y} + d_{yx}\frac{{\partial}\Phi}{{\partial}y}\frac{{\partial}C}{{\partial}x} \biggr\} \\ + \frac{{\partial}\Phi}{{\partial}t} \frac{f_s C}{(1 - f_s\Phi)} \end{multline*} \medskip \noindent and here's just a plain ol' equation...note that you can use anything as a label, but it helps to have your own convention (e.g. eq:blih for the blih equation, etc): \begin{equation}\label{eq:growth} \frac{{\partial}\Phi}{{\partial}t}=\beta(C_{eq} - C) [1 - \Theta(\int\limits_\epsilon dx \int\limits_\epsilon dy \Phi/\epsilon^2)] \end{equation} $ \Theta(x) = \begin{cases} 1, &\text{if $(x \le 0 )$}\\ 0, &\text{if $(x > 0)$} \end{cases} $ \medskip \noindent Again, Eq. \ref{eq:growth} is simply a statement of the growth of the solid being proportional to the driving force, and occuring only when nucleated by nearby solid. \bigskip \noindent Anyways.. . ..that's about it.. . ..there should be plenty more examples in the other files.. .. ..as far as figures go, I suggest you use encapsulated postscript (.eps) files instead of regular postscript (.ps) files...I was able to consistently scale and rotate the .eps files... \noindent I've only worked with single images.. . ..if you want to use arrays of images, more power to you, and if you figure it out (there is a file on the math system rumored to be useful), please make a point of it to give a talk and spread the word. \begin{center} {\bf GOOD LUCK, AND DO WELL!!!}\\(and please copy anything out of here that might help!) \end{center}