title: Latex figure ambient: how to start the indexing of the figures from a fixed number?
body: <p>What I am searching for, is a method to start the indexing inside the latex figure ambient from a fixed number that I choose.</p>
  <p>Looking at the following screenshot:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/hZ1N6.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">example image</a>
  what I want is that the indexing does not start from 1, but from a specific number.</p>
  <p>Online I found the command <code>\setcounter{figure}{}</code>, but adding it to my latex file does not change anything. As a proof here's the corresponding latex code:</p>
  <pre><code>\begin{figure*}[bth]
  \renewcommand*\thesubfigure{\arabic{subfigure}}
  \setcounter{figure}{7}
  \subfloat[Type 1, correctly classified]
  {\label{fig:7corr}
  \includegraphics[width=.3\linewidth]{Figures/saliencymaps/correct/1smcorrtype1.pdf}} \quad
  \subfloat[Type 2, correctly classified]
  {\label{fig:8corr}
  \includegraphics[width=.3\linewidth]{Figures/saliencymaps/correct/2smcorrtype2.pdf}} \quad
  \subfloat[Int. type, correctly classified]
  {\label{fig:10corr}
  \includegraphics[width=.3\linewidth]{Figures/saliencymaps/correct/4smcorrtypeint.pdf}} \quad
  \subfloat[Type 2, correctly classified]
  {\label{fig:11corr}
  \includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{Figures/saliencymaps/correct/5smcorrtype2.pdf}} \quad
  \subfloat[Type 2, correctly classified]
  {\label{fig:12corr}
  \includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{Figures/saliencymaps/correct/6smcorrtype2.pdf}} \quad
  \subfloat[Int. type, correctly classified]
  {\label{fig:13corr}
  \includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{Figures/saliencymaps/correct/7smcorrtypeint.pdf}} \quad
  \subfloat[Type 1, correctly classified]
  {\label{fig:14corr}
  \includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{Figures/saliencymaps/correct/8smcorrtype1.pdf}} \quad
  \subfloat[Type 1, correctly classified]
  {\label{fig:15corr}
  \includegraphics[width=0.3\linewidth]{Figures/saliencymaps/correct/9smcorrtype1.pdf}} \quad
  \caption[Saliency maps for correctly classified spectra.]{Saliency maps for correctly classified spectra.}\label{fig:sal_maps_corr}
  \end{figure*}
  </code></pre>
  <p>where I put <code>\setcounter{figure}{7}</code> in order to make the numbering start from 7, but the result is the one that you can seen in the above figure.</p>
  <p>Do you have any suggestions on how to solve the problem?
  Thank you in advance for the help!</p>