[texhax] Using captions in longtables
hemant kumar
technix88 at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 2 23:13:10 CEST 2005
My tables are not multipage.It is just that,i don't
like using combination of "table" and "tabular".And
that's why though my tables are within a page,i am
still using "longtable".
I am still waiting for the solution.
--- Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk>
wrote:
> > I want to put the caption,at the end of table.And
> when
> > i do something like this..
> > \begin{longtable}{...}
> > ..... \\
> > ......\\
> > \hline
> > \caption{It is a caption}
> > \end{longtable}
> >
> > It comes too close to the last row of the
> table.What
> > is the solution.
>
> for multi-page tables, it makes little sense to have
> the caption at
> the bottom of the last page (only). the common
> practice is to put the
> caption in the first head, and to put something
> similar in the
> subsequent heads, with a continuation marker.
>
> since the caption command is designed for such
> usage, your odd choice
> isn't catered for. as a first try, i would suggest
> putting a \strut
> command at the start of the caption text. or
> redesign the table as
> i've suggested.
>
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