LyX ⇒ longtable | Tables with Counter and Caption

[jenzhen99]

Hi,

I normally put all my tables in floats. Now I've seen in this forum that for a longtable this is not possible: When the table is inside a float, then the longtable option in the table settings cannot be activated. So I just said Insert/Table and then I could indeed make it a long table.

However, now the table isn't counted anymore and I don't get a caption. How can I get a longtable with counting and caption?

[cgnieder]

Did you take a look into the longtable documentation?

Anyway, here's how:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{longtable}
\begin{document}

\begin{table}
 \caption{something}\label{table}
\end{table}

\begin{longtable}{ll}
 \caption{here's the caption and the label\label{longtable}} 
 \endfirsthead % caption is placed inside the longtable usually as part of the first head
 a & b
\end{longtable}

see tables \ref{table} and \ref{longtable}

\end{document}