[Tex/LaTex] ‘longtable’ caption without incrementing ‘table’

captionslongtablenumbering

For reasons both complex and confusing, I would like to caption a longtable without incrementing the table counter in the process.

I want to have two consecutive longtable environments to be captioned with identical table numbers; i.e. one longtable captioned "Table x.y: Data Set (Part A)" and one captioned "Table x.y: Data Set (Part B)", with x.y being identical for both tables.

Apparently however, even \caption*{} command bumps table. I am a bit at a loss here.

Note: I know that the xtab package would enable me to have one long table with switches of headers and captions mid-table. However I got a (different) problem with that package, akin to this question but sadly not solved by egreg's answer there; so this question should be considered longtable-only as xtab, supertabular etc. don't float my boat right now. 🙁

Best Answer

Instead of using the numbered longtable environment, use the unnumbered longtable* environment; enable with \usepackage{caption}.

See Axel Sommerfeldt's answer to Longtable caption numbering .

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[Tex/LaTex] Caption spacing – table vs longtable

Load the caption package:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{longtable, booktabs, graphicx, caption}
\captionsetup[table]{position=above}
\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\caption{This is the first caption}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{@{}llllll@{}}
\toprule
\textbf{Name} & \textbf{Description} & \textbf{Unit} & \textbf{Data source} & \textbf{Time frame} & \textbf{Frequency} \\
\midrule  
Name & Description & Unit & Data source & Time frame & Frequency \\
\bottomrule  
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\begin{longtable}{@{}p{2cm}p{1.5cm}p{3.6cm}p{1.2cm}p{1.5cm}p{1.5cm}@{}}
\caption{This is the second caption} \\
\toprule 
\textbf{Author(s)} & \textbf{Area} & \textbf{Estimated relationship} & \textbf{Time frame}  & \textbf{Scope}  & \textbf{type} \\
\midrule 
\endfirsthead
\multicolumn{6}{c}{\tablename\ \thetable\ -- \textit{Continued from previous page}} \\
\toprule 
\textbf{Author(s)} & \textbf{Area} & \textbf{Estimated relationship} & \textbf{Time frame}  & \textbf{Scope}  & \textbf{ type} \\ 
\midrule 
\endhead
\midrule 
\multicolumn{6}{r}{\textit{Continued on next page}} \\ 
\endfoot 
\bottomrule 
\endlastfoot
name & area & relationship & time & scope &  type \\
\end{longtable} 
\end{document}

Don't use the center environment inside table, but \centering
Don't use the center environment around longtable: the table will appear centered by default
Use \resizebox only as a last resort
Narrow p columns may be better handled if you add \raggedright, which you can do with the array package:
```
>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{3.6cm}
```
would be a good declaration for your third longtable column (add \usepackage{array} to your preamble.

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[Tex/LaTex] Several caption problems in longtable and tabulary

To my utter surprise, I actually managed to patch the code for the ltabulary environment to add support for the \caption command. The patched code is taken from the ltxtable package with very minor changes and comprises a whooping 3 lines.

The below code solves all problems in one go, as suggested in the first problem in the question. Replace the corresponding code in the MWE with this one, convert the \captionof command into a \caption command and move it inside the ltabulary environment.

%% define a new envrionment which marries longtable with tabulary
% from http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/78075/multi-page-with-tabulary (see there for usage)
% with modifications taken from the ltxtable package to make captions work
\makeatletter
\newcommand*\TY@cap@gobble[2][]{\\}% from ltxtable (adjusted)
\def\ltabulary{%
    \def\caption{% from ltxtable (adjusted)
        \@ifstar\TY@cap@gobble\TY@cap@gobble}
    \def\endfirsthead{\\}%
    \def\endhead{\\}%
    \def\endfoot{\\}%
    \def\endlastfoot{\\}%
    \def\tabulary{%
        \def\TY@final{%
    \def\endfirsthead{\LT@end@hd@ft\LT@firsthead}%
    \def\endhead{\LT@end@hd@ft\LT@head}%
    \def\endfoot{\LT@end@hd@ft\LT@foot}%
    \def\endlastfoot{\LT@end@hd@ft\LT@lastfoot}%
    \longtable}%
        \let\endTY@final\endlongtable
        \TY@tabular}%
    \dimen@\columnwidth
    \advance\dimen@-\LTleft
    \advance\dimen@-\LTright
    \tabulary\dimen@}
\def\endltabulary{\endtabulary}
\makeatother

For the sake of completeness, here is the corrected MWE:

\documentclass{scrartcl}

\usepackage[hypcap=true]{caption}
    \captionsetup{labelfont=bf, justification=justified, singlelinecheck=false, format=plain}

\usepackage{tabulary, booktabs, longtable, ltcaption, ltabptch}
\usepackage[referable]{threeparttablex}

%% define a new envrionment which marries longtable with tabulary
% from http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/78075/multi-page-with-tabulary (see there for usage)
% with modifications taken from the ltxtable package to make captions work
\makeatletter
\newcommand*\TY@cap@gobble[2][]{\\}% from ltxtable (adjusted)
\def\ltabulary{%
    \def\caption{% from ltxtable (adjusted)
        \@ifstar\TY@cap@gobble\TY@cap@gobble}
    \def\endfirsthead{\\}%
    \def\endhead{\\}%
    \def\endfoot{\\}%
    \def\endlastfoot{\\}%
    \def\tabulary{%
        \def\TY@final{%
    \def\endfirsthead{\LT@end@hd@ft\LT@firsthead}%
    \def\endhead{\LT@end@hd@ft\LT@head}%
    \def\endfoot{\LT@end@hd@ft\LT@foot}%
    \def\endlastfoot{\LT@end@hd@ft\LT@lastfoot}%
    \longtable}%
        \let\endTY@final\endlongtable
        \TY@tabular}%
    \dimen@\columnwidth
    \advance\dimen@-\LTleft
    \advance\dimen@-\LTright
    \tabulary\dimen@}
\def\endltabulary{\endtabulary}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\begin{table}
    \caption{Nice long caption directly above the start of the table with lots of...}
\begin{threeparttable}
    \begin{tabulary}{\textwidth}{LlLLL}
        \toprule
        top cell one with title & top cell two with title & longtop with note & top cell four with title & top cell five with title\\
        \midrule
        cell & cell & big long cell stuff & cell & more cell\\
        cell & cell & big long cell stuff & cell & more cell\\
        cell & cell & big long cell stuff & cell & more cell\\
        cell & cell & big long cell stuff & cell & more cell\\
        cell & cell & big long cell stuff & cell & more cell\\
        cell & cell & big long cell stuff & cell & more cell\\
        \bottomrule
    \end{tabulary}
    \begin{tablenotes}\footnotesize
        \note This is a long explanation going over multiple lines. This is a long explanation going over multiple lines. This is a long explanation going over multiple lines. This is a long explanation going over multiple lines. This is a long explanation going over multiple lines.
    \end{tablenotes}
\end{threeparttable}
\end{table}


\begin{ThreePartTable}
    \begin{TableNotes}\footnotesize
        \note This is a long explanation going over multiple lines. This is a long explanation going over multiple lines. This is a long explanation going over multiple lines. This is a long explanation going over multiple lines. This is a long explanation going over multiple lines.
    \end{TableNotes}
%   \setlength\LTleft{0pt}
%   \setlength\LTright{0pt}
%   \captionof{table}{Example of long table over multiple pages}
    \begin{ltabulary}{rLlcccc}
        \caption{Example of long table over multiple pages}\\
        \toprule
        cell 1 & cell with linebreaks if it gets too wide and wider and wider and wider and wider & cell 3 & cell 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        \midrule
        \endfirsthead
        \caption[]{(continued)}\\
        \toprule
        cell 1 & cell with linebreaks if it gets too wide & cell 3 & cell 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        \midrule
        \endhead
        \endfoot
        \bottomrule
        \insertTableNotes
        \endlastfoot
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
        1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 \\
    \end{ltabulary}
\end{ThreePartTable}


\begin{table}
    \caption{Nice long caption directly above the start of the table with lots of...}
\begin{threeparttable}
    \begin{tabulary}{\textwidth}{LlLLL}
        \toprule
        top cell one with title & top cell two with title & longtop with note & top cell four with title & top cell five with title\\
        \midrule
        cell & cell & big long cell stuff & cell & more cell\\
        cell & cell & big long cell stuff & cell & more cell\\
        cell & cell & big long cell stuff & cell & more cell\\
        cell & cell & big long cell stuff & cell & more cell\\
        cell & cell & big long cell stuff & cell & more cell\\
        cell & cell & big long cell stuff & cell & more cell\\
        \bottomrule
    \end{tabulary}
    \begin{tablenotes}\footnotesize
        \note This is a long explanation going over multiple lines. This is a long explanation going over multiple lines. This is a long explanation going over multiple lines. This is a long explanation going over multiple lines. This is a long explanation going over multiple lines.
    \end{tablenotes}
\end{threeparttable}
\end{table}

\end{document}

And here, excerpts of the result which did not work before:

Table 2 caption Table 2 (continued) caption Table 3 correct numbering

If I feel daring, I might convert this to an actual package.

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