Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ difference in alignment between table and tabular

[chimanrao]

hi

Please take a look at snippet below:

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\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,openany]{book}
\usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}
\begin{document}

\begin{itemize}
\item This gets aligned outside the items
\begin{table}[h]
\begin{tabular}{ccc}
& Portfolio 1 & Portfolio 2 \\
$S_T \le X$ & X & $S_T$ \\
$S_T \geq X$ & $S_T$ & $S_T$
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\item This gets aligned inside the items

\begin{tabular}{ccc}
& Portfolio 1 & Portfolio 2 \\
$S_T \le X$ & X & $S_T$ \\
$S_T \geq X$ & $S_T$ & $S_T$
\end{tabular}

\end{itemize}

\end{document}

The alignment with table + tabular and only tabular is different.
I have two questions:
a. How can I get table + tabular to align like tabular?
b. How can I add a caption and label to tabular and make it appear in list of tables using only the tabular tag?

[localghost]

The caption package allows to assign caption to figures without a figure environment.


Best regards
Thorsten