I am using the following to number my figures in my thesis I found this on the mailing list archive and it works nicely... in TEX: \begin{equation}\begin{array}{c}\mbox{ then the figure is inserted here in TEX: }\end{array} then the label is inserted in TEX: \end{equation} The problem I have is that next to the figure and in cross references it just has the number. e.g. 2.3 I would like it to print out (2.3) as it does for equations and equation cross references. Is this possible with the above method of enumeration?? Thanks.