Whenever I put
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}
...
\end{tabular}
\caption{My great table}
\end{table}
It would end up with the name "Table 1: My great table". I don't want the prefix "Table 1:". Is there a way to suppress it?
captionstables
Whenever I put
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}
...
\end{tabular}
\caption{My great table}
\end{table}
It would end up with the name "Table 1: My great table". I don't want the prefix "Table 1:". Is there a way to suppress it?
You can use the floatrow
package; a little example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[capbesideposition=outside,capbesidesep=quad]{floatrow}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\floatbox[\capbeside]{table}
{\caption{A test table with its caption beside}\label{tab:test}}%
{\begin{tabular}{ll}
column 1a & column 2a \\
column 1b & column 2b \\
column 1c & column 2c
\end{tabular}}
\end{table}
\end{document}
Another option is the sidecap
package:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{sidecap}
\begin{document}
\begin{SCtable}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
column 1a & column 2a \\
column 1b & column 2b \\
column 1c & column 2c
\end{tabular}
\caption{A test table with its caption beside}\label{tab:test}
\end{SCtable}
\end{document}
I just ran into the same issue. (It's really annoying when trying to produce print-quality preprint versions of the paper.) Poking around in pnastwo.cls, I found the following fix:
Find the first line in pnastwo.cls which says
\ifx\@captype\xtable
Change this to
\ifx\@captype\table
Alternatively, if you don't want to touch the class file, you can put the following into the preamble of your document:
% Fix wierd behavior which prevents table captions from appearing for
% tables in the body of the article
\makeatletter
\long\def\@makecaption#1#2{%
\ifx\@captype\table
\let\currtabcaption\relax
\gdef\currtabcaption{
\tabnumfont\relax #1. \tabtextfont\relax#2\par
\vskip\belowcaptionskip
}
\else
\vskip\abovecaptionskip
\sbox\@tempboxa{\fignumfont#1.\figtextfont\hskip.5em\relax #2}%
\ifdim \wd\@tempboxa >\hsize
\fignumfont\relax #1.\figtextfont\hskip.5em\relax#2\par
\else
\global \@minipagefalse
\hb@xt@\hsize{\hfil\box\@tempboxa\hfil}%
\fi
\fi
}
\makeatother
One additional comment: once this bug is fixed, you'll almost certainly run into another issue which you'd want fixed if you use the PNAS two-column class to produce production-quality output: Unless you define floats with the h "here" placement, it loses the labels, so all cross-referencing of figures and tables breaks. Here is the fix, for direct pasting into the document preamble. You can also patch up the macro \DonormalEndcol pnastwo.cls, it's the same mistake 6 times over...
% And another fix. PNAS class loses the label of floats unless they
% were defined with the [h] option (so not really floats at all). It
% all comes down to wrong scope in the following routine which pushes
% out the floats onto the page. This is the fixed version:
\makeatletter
\def\DonormalEndcol{%
%% top float ==>
\ifx\toporbotfloat\xtopfloat%
%% figure ==>
\ifcaptypefig%
\expandafter\gdef\csname topfloat\the\figandtabnumber\endcsname{%
\vbox{\vskip\PushOneColTopFig%
\unvbox\csname figandtabbox\the\loopnum\endcsname%
\vskip\abovefigcaptionskip%
\csname caption\the\loopnum\endcsname%
\csname letteredcaption\the\loopnum\endcsname%
\csname continuedcaption\the\loopnum\endcsname%
\csname letteredcontcaption\the\loopnum\endcsname
\ifredefining%
\csname label\the\loopnum\endcsname%
\expandafter\gdef\csname topfloat\the\loopnum\endcsname{}\fi}%
\vskip\intextfloatskip%%
\vskip-4pt %% probably an artifact of topskip??
}%
\else%
%% plate ==>
\ifcaptypeplate%
\expandafter\gdef\csname topfloat\the\figandtabnumber\endcsname{%
\vbox{\vskip\PushOneColTopFig%
\unvbox\csname figandtabbox\the\loopnum\endcsname
\vskip\abovefigcaptionskip
\csname caption\the\loopnum\endcsname
\csname letteredcaption\the\loopnum\endcsname
\csname continuedcaption\the\loopnum\endcsname
\csname letteredcontcaption\the\loopnum\endcsname
\ifredefining
\csname label\the\loopnum\endcsname
\expandafter\gdef\csname topfloat\the\loopnum\endcsname{}\fi}
\vskip\intextfloatskip %%
\vskip-4pt %% probably an artifact of topskip??
}%
\else% table ==>
\expandafter\gdef\csname topfloat\the\figandtabnumber\endcsname{%
\vbox{\vskip\PushOneColTopTab %%
\csname caption\the\loopnum\endcsname
\csname letteredcaption\the\loopnum\endcsname
\csname continuedcaption\the\loopnum\endcsname
\csname letteredcontcaption\the\loopnum\endcsname
\vskip\captionskip
\unvbox\csname figandtabbox\the\loopnum\endcsname
\ifredefining
\csname label\the\loopnum\endcsname
\expandafter\gdef\csname topfloat\the\loopnum\endcsname{}\fi
}\vskip\intextfloatskip %% why don't we need this?
\vskip-10pt}
\fi\fi%
%
\else% bottom float
%
\ifcaptypefig
\expandafter\gdef\csname botfloat\the\figandtabnumber\endcsname{%
\vskip\intextfloatskip
\vbox{\unvbox\csname figandtabbox\the\loopnum\endcsname
\vskip\abovefigcaptionskip
\csname caption\the\loopnum\endcsname
\csname letteredcaption\the\loopnum\endcsname%
\csname continuedcaption\the\loopnum\endcsname%
\csname letteredcontcaption\the\loopnum\endcsname%
\vskip\PushOneColBotFig%%
\ifredefining%
\csname label\the\loopnum\endcsname
\expandafter\gdef\csname botfloat\the\loopnum\endcsname{}\fi}}%
\else
\ifcaptypeplate
\expandafter\gdef\csname botfloat\the\figandtabnumber\endcsname{%
\vskip\intextfloatskip
\vbox{\unvbox\csname figandtabbox\the\loopnum\endcsname
\vskip\abovefigcaptionskip
\csname caption\the\loopnum\endcsname
\csname letteredcaption\the\loopnum\endcsname%
\csname continuedcaption\the\loopnum\endcsname%
\csname letteredcontcaption\the\loopnum\endcsname%
\vskip\PushOneColBotFig%%
\ifredefining%
\csname label\the\loopnum\endcsname
\expandafter\gdef\csname botfloat\the\loopnum\endcsname{}\fi}}%
\else% TABLE
\expandafter\gdef\csname botfloat\the\figandtabnumber\endcsname{%
\vskip\intextfloatskip
\vbox{\csname caption\the\loopnum\endcsname
\csname letteredcaption\the\loopnum\endcsname
\csname continuedcaption\the\loopnum\endcsname
\csname letteredcontcaption\the\loopnum\endcsname%
\vskip.5\intextfloatskip
\unvbox\csname figandtabbox\the\loopnum\endcsname%
\vskip\PushOneColBotTab
\ifredefining%
\csname label\the\loopnum\endcsname
\expandafter\gdef\csname botfloat\the\loopnum\endcsname{}\fi}}%
\fi\fi\fi}
\makeatother
Best Answer
I recommend you to use the
\caption*
command from thecaption
package:As @egreg suggests there's also the possibility to do it using the
\captionsetup
command:Doing so you don't always need to use
*
.The solution you're using depends on what you're trying to achieve. The second one adds your table to the list of tables whereas
\caption*
does not. (Thanks @Herbert)