> On Oct 20, 2015, at 7:55 PM, maxwell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> (Apologies if this isn't the right mailing list--the documentation I have
> says I should send this to [email protected], but I don't see that mailing
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> does exist, I don't know how to subscribe to it.)
>
> I've encountered a problem in the interaction between the longtable, bidi,
> and caption packages. I'll attach the minimal example at the bottom of this
> msg, but I have a question. We're running the 2014 TeXLive distro; I never
> got around to downloading the 2015 distro. We'll probably do that, but we're
> having some connectivity issues (serves me right for not having downloaded it
> months ago), and there are some hoops to jump through, so it won't be instant
> gratification.
>
> The issue we've found is that we want table captions to be ragged right,
> rather than centered. Ordinarily, the caption package handles this fine.
> But when I have a longtable, and I use the bidi package as well, I can only
> get centered captions for long tables (ordinary floating table captions work
> fine).
>
> I've tried numerous variants of the code below, e.g. telling the caption pkg
> to do ragged right only in one or the other of the places, loading the bidi
> bpackage before or after the \captionsetup command (it cannot be loaded
> before the caption pkg is loaded), etc.
>
> Did anyone else notice this last year, and if so, has it been fixed in the
> 2015 distro?
>
> Mike Maxwell
> University of Maryland
Howdy,
The longtable environment is like a tabular environment, not the same as a
floating environment like the teble environment. It's floats that take the
caption. Try
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{longtable}
%Tell the caption pkg to do ragged right at load time:
\usepackage[singlelinecheck=off
,justification=raggedright
]{caption}
\usepackage{bidi}
%Tell the caption pkg again:
%\captionsetup{singlelinecheck=off
% ,justification=raggedright
% }
\begin{document}
Some test!
\begin{table}
\caption{A long table}%Should be ragged right, but is centered instead
\begin{longtable}{llll}
\tabularnewline
{AAAA} & {BBBB} & {CCCC} & {DDDD}
\tabularnewline
\end{longtable}
\end{table}
\end{document}
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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