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Thanks cgnieder, indeed I was using Tex Live 2009, an outdated version that is still bundled with Ubuntu 12.04.

Dear all,

I'm trying to align numbers in a table using siunitx . With this small example:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{siunitx}

\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{S[table-format=3.2]}% syntax for siunitx v2; for v1 use "tabformat"
555 \\
7.77 \\
99.9
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

I'm ...

Hello everyone, thank you for the replies.

First on this comment:

At the moment I can't comprehend why you insist on altering the table caption prefix. Obviously you need something that you can label as listing. So it would be much smarter to create a new floating object or use a package that ...

Hi localghot and sommerfee, thank you for replying. My comments go below.

Why? Give a minimal example where these packages fail.

I don't know where they fail, but I couldn't find examples where these packages are used to substitute a table caption prefix.

What do you mean by "doesn't compile ...

Hi Thorsten,

Neither listings (which I already tried) nor minted seem to apply in this case. I tried newfloat , but unfortunately the document doesn't compile if add the package command. As for floatrow its manual has over 100 pages and so far I haven't found an example where the float element ...

Hello everyone,

I'd like to change the caption prefix of a table, e.g. like this.
\begin{table}
\caption{A caption}
\end{table}
This results in something like this.
Table I: A caption
And I'd like to change it to this.
Listing I: A caption
I tried using the \tablename command, but it has no ...

Dear all,

I work in a research group were at any moment in time we have several authors writing several different documents collaboratively. We have an SVN server that orchestrates it all and things run smoothly. The issue is that when we have several documents on the same topic we end up having ...

That did it frabjous, thank you.

Could you explain the difference between "utf8" and "utf8x"?

Best,

Luís

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to create a document in portuguese with Texmaker 1.9.2 on Ubuntu 9.10. The document header is as follows:

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,notitlepage, portugues]{report}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[portuges]{babel}

Texmaker is configured to use the system's ...

Decide which compiler engine to use in dependence on the desired format of the final output.

Ok, so I decide to go with pdflatex. How do I avoid the isolation of figures in a single page, just as the dummy example shows?

Thank you.