General ⇒ Adding table to List of Tables

[user]

Hi.

Ive got a little problem with the List of Tables. It is supposed to add tables automatically after I inserted a command \listoftables. Im working with swp. Its working with LOF though. So how can I get this to work for LOT? Is there some simple command that I can enter for each table to be added? I could just write under the heading list of tables, but the format is not quite uniform with the other lists. Please help. thanks.

DA

[phi]

Hello,

\listoftables works exactly like \listoffigures. So if you have table environments with captions in your document and compile twice, they will show up in the list. NB: What appears in the list is the captions of table environments; tabular or tabbing environments outside a table environment won't show up.

[gmedina]

Hi,

Hello,

\listoftables works exactly like \listoffigures. So if you have table environments with captions in your document and compile twice, they will show up in the list. NB: What appears in the list is the captions of table environments; tabular or tabbing environments outside a table environment won't show up.

The part that I put in boldface is not quite true. The caption package implements the \captionof command that allows tables to be given a caption (and therefore be listed in the list of tables) without using a table environment. A similar remark applies also to figures outside a figure environment. The following example illustrates this fact for tables:

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\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{caption}

\begin{document}
\listoftables
\newpage

\begin{table}[!ht]
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{cc}
    column1 & column2
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{a floating test table.}
  \label{tab:testtab1}
\end{table}

\noindent\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{cc}
    column1 & column2
  \end{tabular}
  \captionof{table}{a non-floating test table.}
  \label{tab:testtab2}
\end{minipage}

\end{document}

Please refer to the package documentation for further information.