subfigure - how to eliminate (a), (b), ...

Question

I am using the subfigure package to reference parts of a figure. It works just fine when each of the subfigures is a single plot and I want LaTeX to insert labels (a), (b) ... under each. However, for consistency with other figures in my manuscript, I would like to have a single, multi-panel plot where I insert the (a), (b), ... manually (done using lattice in R). I can do this by still using

\subfigure[][]{%
  \label{beta}
  }%

for each subfigure and then inserting the single plot. However, this still gives the labels (a), (b), ... - now superimposed on each other. I would like to get rid of these, whilst still maintaining the functionality of subfigure which allows me to reference individual subfigures. I have tried \renewcommand*{\thesubfigure}{} but that removes the subfigure labels everywhere.

Would you know which command makes the subfigure labels under the plots and how to modify this to the desired effect?

Answer 1

Here is how I would do:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{caption}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[!ht]
  \captionsetup[subfigure]{labelformat=empty}
  \centering
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{Paris}}\quad
  \subfloat[]{\includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{Paris}}
  \caption{Caption about here}
  \label{fig:fig1}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

Answer 2

According to the help for the subfigure package, you can just drop the [] in the \subfigure command and it will not number the subfigure:

\documentclass[draft]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfigure}

\begin{document}


\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \subfigure[]{\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{demofig}}
    \subfigure[]{\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{demofig}}
    \subfigure[]{\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{demofig}}
    \vfill
    \subfigure[]{\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{demofig}}
    \subfigure[]{\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{demofig}}
    \subfigure[]{\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{demofig}}
    \vfill
    \subfigure[]{\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{demofig}}
    \subfigure[]{\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{demofig}}
    \subfigure[]{\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{demofig}}
    \vfill
    \subfigure{\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{demofig}}
    \caption{All numbered but the last!}
    \label{fig:demofig}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

This is the result with MiKTeX 2.9:

Answer 3

Perhaps I am missing the point, but why do you need subfloat in the first place?

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=.4\columnwidth]{figures/fig1}\quad
\includegraphics[width=.4\columnwidth]{figures/fig2}
\caption{Caption}
\label{fig:fig1}
\end{figure}

Answer 4

This works fine.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfig}


\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[!ht]
   %\captionsetup[subfigure]{labelformat=empty}
   \centering
   \subfloat{\includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{Paris}}\quad
   \subfloat{\includegraphics[width=.4\textwidth]{Paris}}
   \caption{Caption about here}
   \label{fig:fig1}
\end{figure}

\end{document}