[Tex/LaTex] Caption in the outer margin using longtable within a tufte-latex document

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The tufte-latex class has a page layout with a wide margin on the side; the class redefines the figure and table environments so that the captions are put in the margin, side to side with the floating environment.
Here's an excerpt from the sample-book.pdf file: Example of table and its caption in the tufte-latex class
However, there's a problem when using the longtable environment.
Since it cannot be put inside a table environment, it loses the caption in the margin.

Longtable in fact has a \caption{} command, but it allows the caption to be placed only on top on the table, not on the side (that is, in the margin):
Longtable environment with wrong caption placement

How can I have a longtable with the caption in the margin?

tufte-latex places the caption in the margin, aligned with the top of the floating environment, and it can be serif (default) or sans-serif (\sffamily).

I'm aware of this answer, but it does not solve the problem completely, as the longtable caption does not inherit the format of the other captions.

A MWE as requested (longtable with the wrong caption):

\documentclass{tufte-book}

\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{longtable}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[h]
  \centering
    \begin{tabular}{lcr}
      \toprule
      Heading & Style & Size \\
      \midrule
      Part & roman & {40} \\
      Chapter & italic & {40} \\
      Section & italic & {26} \\
      Subsection & italic & {26} \\
      Paragraph & italic & 10/14 \\
      \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
  \caption{Heading styles used in.}
\end{table}

\begin{longtable}{lcccc}
\caption{Verification methods.}\\
\toprule
Requirement id & Review of design & Analysis & Inspection & Test \\
\toprule
\endfirsthead
\toprule
Requirement id & Review of design & Analysis & Inspection & Test \\
%\otoprule
\endhead
\bottomrule
\endfoot
One & * & & & \\
\midrule
Two & * & & & \\
\midrule
Three & * & & & \\
\midrule
Four & * & & & \\
\end{longtable}

\end{document}

Best Answer

Basically you can use the code in the referenced answer but replace the \raggedright by the formatting the Tufte class uses. I don't really know that class but using \tracingall suggests that this produces the same formatting (but the class may have higher level access to these settings)

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\documentclass{tufte-book}

\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{longtable}

\makeatletter
\def\LT@makecaption#1#2#3{%
  \noalign{\smash{\hbox{\kern\textwidth\rlap{\kern\marginparsep
  \parbox[t]{\marginparwidth}{%
\@tufte@caption@font \@tufte@caption@justification \noindent 
   #1{#2: }\ignorespaces #3}}}}}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}


\begin{table}[h]
  \centering
    \begin{tabular}{lcr}
      \toprule
      Heading & Style & Size \\
      \midrule
      Part & roman & {40} \\
      Chapter & italic & {40} \\
      Section & italic & {26} \\
      Subsection & italic & {26} \\
      Paragraph & italic & 10/14 \\
      \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
 \caption{Heading styles used in.}
\end{table}




\begin{longtable}{lcccc}
\caption{Verification methods.}\\
\toprule
Requirement id & Review of design & Analysis & Inspection & Test \\
\toprule
\endfirsthead
\toprule
Requirement id & Review of design & Analysis & Inspection & Test \\
%\otoprule
\endhead
\bottomrule
\endfoot
One & * & & & \\
\midrule
Two & * & & & \\
\midrule
Three & * & & & \\
\midrule
Four & * & & & \\
\end{longtable}

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Colorbox not working with longtable

Perhaps this is, what the OP requests, but I could not test any feature, since the example by the OP is fragmented. I changed to tcolorbox with no rounded corners and switched off the box rules. In order to demonstrate the colorbox at all, I used a yellow background colour.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{longtable}
\setlength{\LTpre}{0pt}
\setlength{\LTpost}{-6pt}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[UKenglish]{babel}
\usepackage[UKenglish]{isodate}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}%
\definecolor{lightgray}{gray}{0.98}
\usepackage[skip=2pt,font=scriptsize]{caption}
\newcommand{\oneS}{\ensuremath{{}^{\textstyle *}}}
\newcommand{\twoS}{\ensuremath{{}^{\textstyle **}}}

\tcbuselibrary{breakable}


\begin{document}%

\newgeometry{left=1.5cm,right=1.5cm,top=1.8cm,bottom=1.8cm}
\begin{landscape}
\scriptsize
\thispagestyle{empty}
\scriptsize
%\begingroup\setlength{\fboxsep}{0pt} >>> NOT WORKING returns "Missing \endgroup inserted" error
%\colorbox{lightgray}{
\begin{tcolorbox}[boxrule=0pt,colback=yellow,oversize=1cm,arc=0mm,auto outer arc, breakable]
\begin{longtable}{%
l S[table-format=-1.4] S[table-format=-1.4] S[table-format=-3.2] S[table-format=-5.2]
S[table-format= 7.2] S[table-format=-3.2] S[table-format=-3.2] S[table-format=-3.2] 
S[table-format=-3.2]  @{\hspace{0.8cm}} r r r r } 
\caption{Summary statistics} \label{fig:sumstat} \\
\toprule
{Future i.e. underlying asset}  & \multicolumn{5}{l}{Daily returns on long-only 
positions} &  \multicolumn{4}{l}{Ljung-Box } & \multicolumn{2}{l}{Avg. vol. (\$ mil.)} 
& \multicolumn{2}{l}{Avg. open interest} \\
\cmidrule(r){2-6} \cmidrule(r){7-10} \cmidrule(r){11-12} \cmidrule(r){13-14}
&  {Mean (\%)} & {Std. (\%)} & {Skew. (\%)}  & {Kurt. (\%)} & {Jarque-Bera} & {(5)} & 
{(20)} & {(60)} & {(120)} & {2000} & {2014} & {2000} & {2014} \\ 
\midrule
\endfirsthead
\toprule
{Future i.e. underlying asset}  & \multicolumn{5}{l}{Daily returns on long-only 
positions} &  \multicolumn{4}{l}{Ljung-Box } & \multicolumn{2}{l}{Avg. vol. (\$ mil.)} 
& \multicolumn{2}{l}{Avg. open interest} \\
\cmidrule(r){2-6} \cmidrule(r){7-10} \cmidrule(r){11-12} \cmidrule(r){13-14}
&  {Mean (\%)} & {Std. (\%)} & {Skew. (\%)}  & {Kurt. (\%)} & {Jarque-Bera} & {(5)}
&     {(20)} & {(60)} & {(120)} & {2000} & {2014} & {2000} & {2014} \\ 
\midrule
\endhead
\bottomrule \multicolumn{14}{r}{\emph{Continued on next page}}
\endfoot
\bottomrule
\endlastfoot
Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice    &   -0.0184 &   1.8845  &   -8.68       &   764.51
\twoS   &   3170.82 \twoS   &   20.61   \twoS   &   43.77   \twoS   &   98.60   \twoS
&   150.82  \oneS   &   43  &   37  &   25727   &   16991   \\
\end{longtable}
\end{tcolorbox}%
% }\endgroup >>> NOT WORKING returns "Missing \endgroup inserted"error
\thispagestyle{empty}
\end{landscape}
\restoregeometry   

\end{document}%

The screen shot shows a version, where I copied the last table line to blow up the table for next page, but for sake of shortness, I do not post this repetion in this example here.

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Edit -- Update As the OP requested:

A more tight colorbox around the table, with a grey background colour, in order to keep the post small, I will only give the change -- replace this in my above example.

In the preamble use

\usepackage{caption}

At the relevant place just before \begin{longtable} use for the tightest tcolorbox around the table itself.

\captionof{table}{Summary statistics} \label{fig:sumstat}
\begin{tcolorbox}[left=2pt,top=0pt,boxrule=0pt,bottom=0pt,boxsep=0pt,colback=gray,arc=0mm,auto outer arc, breakable]

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[Tex/LaTex] Longtable, landscape in tufte-latex

  \documentclass[a4paper]{tufte-book}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{longtable} 
\usepackage{lscape}
\usepackage{colortbl}

\begin{document}

\begin{landscape}
\advance\vsize6cm
\csname @colroom\endcsname=\vsize
\textheight=\vsize
\csname @colht\endcsname=\vsize
\small
     \begin{longtable}{@{}p{1cm}p{1cm}p{1cm}p{1cm}p{1cm}p{1cm}p{5cm}p{4cm}p{5cm}}
\caption{Survey data from a  Mathematics textbook.}
\label{tba-math-5}\\

\hline
\textbf{Chapter}&\textbf{Page}&\textbf{Figure
  No.}&\textbf{Caption}&\textbf{Legend}&\textbf{Graph}&\textbf{Description}&\textbf{Data} &\textbf{Comments}\\

\hline

\endfirsthead
\hline

\textbf{Chapter}&\textbf{Page}&\textbf{Figure No.}&\textbf{Caption}&  \textbf{Legend}&\textbf{Graph}&\textbf{Description}&\textbf{Data}    &\textbf{Comments} \\

\hline
\endhead
\hline \multicolumn{9}{r}{\emph{Continued on next page}}
\endfoot
\endlastfoot

12&159&NA&NA&Yes&Bar Graph&Bar graph in a primitive form, tally
used for     counting and also as a legend. Investigative
questions to be answered     by looking at the chart.&Number of
different     favourite pet animals of children in form of a
table.&This is a good     introduction to bar charts, where number
count in form     of tally marks is used for counting and hence as
a measure of     height of a particular variable. \\
12&161&NA&NA&Yes&Bar Graph&Bar graph in a primitive form, tally
used for     counting and also as a legend. Investigative
questions to be answered     by looking at the chart.&Number of
different     vehicles passing a street in form of a table.&Follow
up from the     previous task. Here also number count in form of
tally marks is used for counting and hence as a measure of height
of a particular variable. The     follow up task asks students to
collect data about     trees in their colony and make a tally-bar
chart for the     data. \\
12&163&NA&NA&Yes&Pie Chart&Pie chart introduced as a Chapati chart
and     numbers to be matched on pie chart from table. It also
asks them investigative questions to be answered using such a
chart.&Number of children who     help most in house work in form
of     table.&This activity introduces students to pie charts. The
follow up task     asks students to collect data about what do
their friends like     to do after school and make a table from
this data. Does not     tell students how to make a pie chart. \\
12&165&NA&Yes&NA&Bar Graph&Bar graph showing temperature of 4
cities in     Summer and Winter. Questions to be answered by
studying these     graphs. The Y-axis has temperature in degree
Centigrade,     while X-axis has cities.&Data directly in the bar
graph, not shown     in form of table. No Source given. &A good
introduction to     bar graphs, but students are not told how to
make such a     chart. The follow up activity asks students to
collect data about     temperature of cities from newspapers or
television and     make a bar chart. The students are to ask
questions based on     the charts they draw to their peers. Also
students are     encouraged to relate the temperatures to
geographical location     of the cities. \\
12&168&NA&NA&NA&Line Graph&Line / point graph showing length of plant
in terms of days. The points are plotted  from a table given for the
data. The X-axis has number of days, and Y-axis has length of plant in
centimeters.&Data of growth of plant as a function of days given in
form of a table. The data is from observing of plants of moong
seeds. &Students are supposed to draw similar graph and check if their
graph matches the one in the textbook. Investigative questions to be
answered based on the graph. \\
\bottomrule

\end{longtable}

\end{landscape}

\end{document}

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