Rich Shepard wrote: > This means that when I enter the reference in the text like this (Figure > [cross-reference]) what I see in the compiled output is a reference like > this (Figure 11.5(b)). TeX added the letter within parentheses. I can't > find a way to turn that off so the typeset reference is like this (Figure > 11.5b).
\renewcommand\thesubfigure{\thefigure\alph{subfigure}}
see the documentation of subfigure.sty
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