General ⇒ Creating multiple captions (e.g. description and source)

[chr4004]

I'm trying to create a table that contains a title caption and a source caption. Is there any way of doing this? Searching this forum for "source caption" leads to all kinds of "source code" results. So I'm having kind of a problem to find what I'm looking for. Wouldn't it be a common problem as every table needs a additional source caption? Thx

[chr4004]

I found the caption package (nice description here [PDF]) that pretty much does the job for me now.

[localghost]

I'm not sure what you mean with a "source caption"? I guess this should be a reference to an entry in the bibliography. This could be done with the usual \caption command.

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\caption[ToC entry without source]{Caption of the table with given source \cite{key}}\label{tab:table}

Not every table needs such a source reference as not every table is taken from another source. Some of them are self made.

I found the caption package (nice description here [PDF]) that pretty much does the job for me now.

It would be very kind if you present your solution here in case somebody else faces a similar problem.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[gmedina]

Hi,

some days ago a similar question was posted in this thread from CQF.info. The idea of the proposed solution was to use \caption and \caption* (described in the documentation of the caption package) For completeness' sake I will reproduce here a variation of the example that was given there:

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{caption}

\begin{document}
\listoftables
\clearpage

\begin{table}
  \centering
  \caption{A test table}
  \label{tab:testtab}
  \begin{tabular}{cc}\hline
    column1 & column 2\\ \hline
  \end{tabular}
  \caption*{Source: some text}
\end{table}

As you can see in \ref{tab:testtab}...
\end{document}