I am writing a longer document divided into \frontmatter and \mainmatter using the scrbook class. While both a table caption and a LOT entry should be generated for tables provided in the mainmatter, both items need be omitted/suppressed for tables given in the frontmatter (think e.g. list of abbreviations, list of symbols ...).
Furthermore, to have consistent caption formatting for tables, figures, listings etc., I decided to rely on the caption package.
Using the caption package to format the caption of tabularray tables as been elaborated in several places like:
- How to auto-copy the formatting from \usepackage{caption} to the caption of tabularray?
- Use caption style defined with caption package in tabularray's longtblr
- Table captions continued
Similarily, creating tables without caption and LOT entry is described in multiple instances:
tabularray's manual (https://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tabularray/tabularray.pdf, end of section 4.1):
If you write entry=none, tabularray package will not add an entry in List of Tables. Therefore caption=text,entry=none is similar to \caption[]{text} in longtable. If you write label=none, tabularray package will not step table counter, and set the caption-tag and caption-sep elements (see below) to empty. Therefore caption=text,entry=none,label=none is similar to \caption*{text} in longtable, except for the counter.
- How do I omit the caption of a continued table on the second page using tabularray
- Remove the table label within "longtblr"
While both approaches are working when used on their own (I might have missed some edge cases), I do not get it working in combination.
What am I missing? How can a use the caption package to format the captions of a tabularray table supporting both tables without captions and LOT entries (in the frontmatter) and "normal" tables (in the mainmatter) of my document?
MWE:
\documentclass{scrbook} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage[ font={footnotesize, sf}, labelfont={bf}, ]{caption} \usepackage{tabularray} \usepackage{tblr-extras} \UseTblrLibrary{booktabs} \UseTblrLibrary{caption} % remove continuation line at table footer \DefTblrTemplate{contfoot-text}{default}{} % define table template with empty captions on first and continued table instances, % remove continuation line in footer \DeclareTblrTemplate{caption}{nocaptemplate}{} \DeclareTblrTemplate{capcont}{nocaptemplate}{} \DefTblrTemplate{contfoot}{nocaptemplate}{} % use table template to define new theme \NewTblrTheme{mytabletheme}{ \SetTblrTemplate{caption}{nocaptemplate}{} \SetTblrTemplate{capcont}{nocaptemplate}{} \SetTblrTemplate{caption-lot}{empty} } \begin{document} \frontmatter \chapter{First Chapter in Frontmatter} This chapter contains a table without any caption, label or LOT entry: \begin{itemize} \item \texttt{entry = none} \item \texttt{label = none} \end{itemize} Problem: (Empty) caption and LOT entry are provided, when using \texttt{caption} and \texttt{tblr-extras} packages for formatting. Uncomment corresponding lines in header to see that is it working without the these two packages. \begin{longtblr}[ entry = none, label = none, % apply theme to obtain table without caption on continued table theme = mytabletheme, ]{ colspec={ l X[l] }, rowhead = 1, rowfoot = 0, } \toprule column 1 & column 2 \\ \midrule a & b \\ \pagebreak a & b \\ \bottomrule \end{longtblr} \listoftables \mainmatter \chapter{First Chapter in Mainmatter} This chapter contains a table with caption, label and LOT entry. \begin{longtblr}[ caption = {The first table with caption}, entry = {The first table with caption}, label = {tbl:first_table_with_caption}, ]{ colspec={ l X[l] }, rowhead = 1, rowfoot = 0, } \toprule column 1 & column 2 \\ \midrule a & b \\ \pagebreak a & b \\ \bottomrule \end{longtblr} \end{document} 
