Time for action – creating a list of diagrams

Suppose all of our figures are diagrams. We shall avoid the term figure and we will typeset a list of diagrams:

1. Open our current example. Add these lines to your preamble:

   \renewcommand{\figurename}{Diagram}
   \renewcommand{\listfigurename}{List of Diagrams}

2. Right after \tableofcontents, add:

   \listoffigures

3. Add a diagram somewhere in Chapter 1:

   \begin{figure}
   \centering
   \fbox{Diagram placeholder}
   \caption{Enterprize Organizational Chart}
   \end{figure}

4. In the second part, in the third chapter, we'd like to add network design diagrams. Let's mark that in the LOF and let the diagrams follow:

   \addtocontents{lof}{Network Diagrams:}
   \begin{figure}
   \centering
   \fbox{Diagram placeholder}
   \caption{Network overview}
   \end{figure}
   \begin{figure}
   \centering
   \fbox{Diagram placeholder}
   \caption{WLAN Design}
   \end{figure}

5. Typeset twice to get the document and the list:

   

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We renamed the figures and the list heading by redefining LaTeX macros. At the end of...