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Isopropyl
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Table without caption but with label

Post by Isopropyl »

Hi,

I am trying to include the number of a table in the table itself. Like this:

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Code, edit and compile here:
\begin{table}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{lll}
\toprule
\multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{Tabelle \ref{tab1}}}\\
\multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{BlaBla}}\\
1 & 2 & 3\\
4 & 5 & 6\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabularx}
\end{table}
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The problem now is where to place the

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\label{tab1}
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Currently I am doing it like this (excerpt)

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...
\end{tabularx}
\caption{BlaBla\label{tab:PlannedContrasts}}
\end{table}
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but that lets me end up with two table captions. One that I included myself in the body of the table (cf. above) and the 'real' latex caption. If, however, I remove the caption, the label will not work anymore and I cannot retrieve the table number.

How could I make the label work without also specifying a caption?

Thank you very much for your help.
Last edited by Isopropyl on Wed Oct 28, 2009 4:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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sommerfee
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Joined: Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:20 pm

Table without caption but with label

Post by sommerfee »

Use \refstepcounter instead of \caption, like here:

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Code, edit and compile here:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx,booktabs}
\begin{document}
Here comes table number \ref{tabl}:
\begin{table}[!ht]
\refstepcounter{table}\label{tabl}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{lll}
\toprule
\multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{\tablename~\thetable}}\\
\multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{BlaBla}}\\
1 & 2 & 3\\
4 & 5 & 6\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabularx}
\end{table}
\end{document}
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(Please note that this example uses \thetable instead of \ref{tabl} since a \ref{tabl} would produce a hyperlink to the table itself if the hyperref package is loaded.)

If you need an entry to the list of tables as well, you could use \captionlistentry provided by the caption package instead of \refstepcounter, like here:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx,booktabs}
\usepackage{caption}
\begin{document}
\listoftables
\bigskip
Here comes table number \ref{tabl}:
\begin{table}[!ht]
\captionlistentry{BlaBlah}\label{tabl}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{lll}
\toprule
\multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{\tablename~\thetable}}\\
\multicolumn{3}{c}{\textbf{BlaBla}}\\
1 & 2 & 3\\
4 & 5 & 6\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabularx}
\end{table}
\end{document}
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HTH,
Axel
Isopropyl
Posts: 29
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Re: Table without caption but with label

Post by Isopropyl »

Hey, thanks a lot! This is exactly what I was looking for :-)
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