> On Oct 20, 2015, at 7:55 PM, maxwell <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu> wrote: > > (Apologies if this isn't the right mailing list--the documentation I have > says I should send this to persian-...@tug.org, but I don't see that mailing > list on the list of TUG mailing lists, nor am I subscribed to it... and if it > 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) -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex