Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ problems with the legend of a long table

[marie2011]

Dear all,

I was wondering if you could help me solving the next problem I encountered. This time it has to do with a very long legend. If I include it in my long table, the format automatically exceeds the format of the layout. Attached you will find a picture and a minimal example so that you can see what I mean.

As usual, many thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Marie2011

[cgnieder]

The picture looks right to me. If you want a different caption style you should change it globally (so it's consistent for all captions). KOMA-Script brings it's own option for this (see scrguien.pdf) or you could use the caption package.

Regards

[marie2011]

Hallo Clemens and all members,

Many thanks for your prompt answer. The problem I have is that the table has a very long legend and it really exceeds the allowed space. Attached you will find an example so that you can see what I mean. What bothers me is that I do not have such problems when I do not use the order \longtable and I can write long legends without problems.

As usual, many thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Marie

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[hugovdberg]

Could you perhaps show us what you would like to accomplish (showing an image using longtable for example)? I saw this topic yesterday as well and don't see anything wrong here, so I'm not sure what you would like to see.
Also, the tex-file you attached to the original post does not compile at all on my computer since it contains references to custom packages of your own (mystyle.sty). It uses so many packages that it cannot be considered a minimal working example, so could you please submit a file that does compile? Or else submit the missing files as well if it is really necessary for the mwe?

[marie2011]

Dear forum members,

Many thanks for the hint. Attached you will find a picture and a minimum example. I have not deleted the packages since I do not know which are the ones I need. I hope everything is OK now. I have just realized that my problem does not have to do with the legend but with the line of the table. In other words, the table exceeds the established format. On the other hand, the legend does not appear any more when I compile the document.

Many thanks in advance.

Best regards,

Marie

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[hugovdberg]

Well, the idea behind the mwe is that you remove (or comment out) packages until you have only the code left active that produces the problem, and maybe even can tell which package is the problem (even though you don't know how to solve it).
But anyway, the problem here is probably that you use the column specifier l, which produces a left aligned column, however, it does not allow linebreaks. Perhaps you could use {lp{4in}} instead of {ll}.
A true minimal example of how to use it:

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\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{longtable}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\begin{longtable}{|l|p{4in}|}
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\end{longtable}
\end{center}
\end{document}

This gives the attached output.

[hugovdberg]

On the disappearing legend, maybe this is centered above the table (not on the page), which now has become so wide that it shifted to the right so much that it floated of the page entirely?

[cgnieder]

You specified two l columns for the table. In a l column there are no line breaks whatsoever. A better choice might be a p{<width>} column:

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\begin{longtable}{lp{.7\linewidth}}
...
\end{longtable}

This will still not produce a nice table due to the way you set the table head. A better way to set the table header on continuation pages would be something like this:

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\multicolumn{2}{c}{\parbox{\LTcapwidth}{\tablename\ \thetable{}: ...}}

that is, mimicking the way longtable builts its caption (see the manual).

As an aside I would recommend using booktabs' commands \toprule, \mirdule, and \bottomrule for the lines.

Putting this all together you get an example without bad boxes:

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\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{booktabs,longtable}

\begin{document}

\begin{longtable}{lp{.7\linewidth}}
  \caption{Respuestas a la pregunta 10 del cuestionario final de
    evaluación: incluir pregunta / incluir pregunta / incluir pregunta} \label{tab:longtable} \\
  \toprule
   \textbf{Participante} & \textbf{Respuesta} \\
  \midrule
 \endfirsthead
  \toprule
  \multicolumn{2}{c}
    {\parbox{\LTcapwidth}{\tablename\ \thetable{}: Respuestas a la pregunta 10 del
    cuestionario final de evaluación: incluir pregunta/ incluir pregunta / incluir
    pregunta}} \\
  \toprule
   \textbf{Participante} & \textbf{Respuesta} \\
  \midrule
 \endhead
  \midrule
    &\hfil\emph{continuación} \\
  \bottomrule
 \endfoot
  \bottomrule
 \endlastfoot
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      Portugal, Spanien, Frankreich und den Niederlanden eroberte das
      British Empire Gebiete, die zu Hochzeiten fast ein Viertel der Erde
      bedeckten. Heute erinnern nur noch 14 kleine Außenposten an die
      koloniale Vergangenheit. Der Fotograf Jon Tonks hat sie besucht: Oft
      Tausende Meilen vom Festland entfernt, sind die Insulaner britisch --
      immer noch und mit Leidenschaft.
\end{longtable}

\end{document}

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Regards

[hugovdberg]

@cgnieder, haha you went the extra way of rebuilding his entire table. I was thinking to do the same (including mentioning booktabs) and then realized I had some work of my own I should finish before tomorrow

[cgnieder]

@hugovdberg this only took me about five minutes which is not too much for an answer, I think.