[Tex/LaTex] Longtable caption below table in LyX

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In LyX I've created a longtable. In LyX the caption is below the table but in the PDF it is shown above the table. Is there a way to force the caption to be below the table in the PDF without converting the table to LaTeX code?

Thanks.

Best Answer

A longtable is a table that might span several pages. A caption at the end means the reader would have to read pages before he knows what the purpose or the table is.

Nevertheless there are several ways to put the caption at the end of the table:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{longtable}
\begin{document}
\begin{longtable}{l}
a\\
b\\
\caption{Table caption}
\end{longtable}

\begin{longtable}{l}
\caption{Table caption}
\endlastfoot
a\\
b\\
\end{longtable}
\end{document}

Result

(I am not familiar with LyX, therefore I can only provide LaTeX code.)

The same caption can be repeated on each page by using \endfoot instead of \endlastfoot in the latter example.

It is also possible to set the caption in the first foot and the other captions have some text added like "continued", see Caption at foot of long tables.

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