To create a list of figures in your book, you type {figures} on a line by itself in a text file in your manuscript, wherever you want the list of figures to appear in the book.
Here's a video that shows you how:
Typically you'll want to put the {figures} directive at the beginning or the end of your manuscript.
Here's an example of what it looks like adding the {figures} directive above the beginning of your first chapter, where the first chapter is named "Chapter One":
{figures}
# Chapter One
Welcome to the Leanpub Browser book writing editor! This page is where you will be writing your book. This file is a working, real example of how to write a book chapter in plain text with Markdown formatting (which we'll explain briefly below).
You can read more about Figures in the Markua manual here:
Resource Insertion Methods
A Figure is basically any object you insert into your manuscript, like an image.
Here's how you add an image to a Leanpub book, with the figure title and caption "Palm Trees":
If you had just that one figure in your book, here is what the List of Figures would look like in the PDF:
The figure title (in this example "Palm Trees") will be a crosslink to the image in the book.
A Brief Detail About Using a List of Figures When You've Set Up A Frontmatter Section in Your Book
If you want a section at the beginning of your book that is numbered in roman numerals, you type this at the end of that section:
{mainmatter}
What the {mainmatter} directive does is tell Leanpub's book generators, "Everything before this should be numbered with roman numerals, and everything after this should be numbered normally".
If you're using the {mainmatter} directive to do this, then the list of figures directive {figures} needs to be before the {mainmatter} directive in your manuscript.
OK, that's it!
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