Tabel with custom crossref: different caption than 'normal' tabel

[pjotrhey]

Description

Hi all,

When I try to make a tabel with a custom crossreference the caption of the tabel (icm GreatTable) is different than those from a 'normal' table (that means: a tabel with a tbl crossref). This is my rendered result: https://pjotrhey.github.io/supptbl

Example
I have hosted a full minimal example in a repo, see: https://github.com/pjotrhey/quatro-table-custom-crossref The mainfile index.qmd is:

---
title: Tables
crossref:
  custom:
    - kind: float
      key: supptbl
      latex-env: supptbl
      reference-prefix: Table S
      space-before-numbering: false
      latex-list-of-description: Supplementary Table
      caption-location: top
---

```{python}
import pandas as pd
from great_tables import GT

# Sample data
data = {
    "Name": ["Alice", "Bob", "Charlie"],
    "Age": [25, 30, 35],
    "Score": [88, 92, 85]
}

df = pd.DataFrame(data)

# Create a gt table
table = GT(df)
```

```{python}
#| label: tbl-ex
#| tbl-cap: An normal table

table
```

```{python}
#| label: supptbl-ex
#| tbl-cap: An supplementary table

table
```

Is this a bug or this intentional?

Quartion version: 1.8.26 on Windows 11.

Thanks in advance!

[mcanouil]

Could you properly format your post using code blocks for code and terminal outputs? Thanks.
If your code contains code blocks, you need to enclose it using more backticks, i.e., usually four ````.
See https://quarto.org/bug-reports.html#formatting-make-githubs-markdown-work-for-us.

[pjotrhey]

Sorry, I tried to make it work for jupyter notebook cells, but did not succeed. I decided to switch to a qmd-file as it's much clearer (and the same 'problem' exists).

[cderv]

I think you are hitting a limitation...

You define a supptbl element, so if you want to add a caption it should be supptbl-cap

See for example using the div syntax

::: {#supptbl-ex supptbl-cap="An supplementary table"}

```{python}
table
```

:::

However, when using inside cell, it seems we are not handling it...

```{python}
#| label: supptbl-ex
#| supptbl-cap: An supplementary table

table
```

we don't take it

And when tbl-cap is set as you did , it is taken to be inside the table caption

<table class="gt_table caption-top table table-sm table-striped small" data-quarto-bootstrap="false">
<caption>An supplementary table</caption>

but without the numbering. which is set outside...

<figure class="quarto-float quarto-float-supptbl figure">
<figcaption class="quarto-float-caption-top quarto-float-caption quarto-float-supptbl quarto-uncaptioned" id="supptbl-ex-caption-0ceaefa1-69ba-4598-a22c-09a6ac19f8ca">
Table S1
</figcaption>

For the first table everything is in the figcaption

<figcaption class="quarto-float-caption-top quarto-float-caption quarto-float-tbl" id="tbl-ex-caption-0ceaefa1-69ba-4598-a22c-09a6ac19f8ca">
Table&nbsp;1: An normal table
</figcaption>

so this made me thing you should try use fig-cap for now.

```{python}
#| label: supptbl-ex
#| fig-cap: An supplementary table

table
```

So we definitely have some problems here.

[cderv]

Related issue:

• Teach engine about new custom crossref #7665

Current working syntax

::: {#supptbl-ex}

```{python}
table
```

An supplementary table

:::