Using the followinging code, the figure is entitled "Figure 1..." regardless of the number of preceding figures that exist.  

Removing the captions "Famous Elephants" destroys the layout.  The layout becomes split into two rows. 

```markdown
::: {#fig-elephants layout-ncol=2}
![Surus](surus.png){#fig-surus}
![Hanno](hanno.png){#fig-hanno}
Famous Elephants
:::
```
jjallaire
2022-05-29T17:22:51Z
rccline
needs-repro
1.0
closed
In mulitcolumn layout, figure is named Figure 1 regardless of preexisting named figures.  
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/1017