[Docutils-develop] [docutils:bugs] #440 longtable labels in the wrong place

[Günter M. <mi...@us...>]

- **status**: open --> pending-remind
- **Comment**:

Thank you for the report and patch.
The warning in the source (introduced 2010-02-05 in [r6255])
 
     other places (beginning, caption) result in LaTeX errors.
     
makes me hesitating to change the current behaviour. OTOH, it may be outdated.

Currently standard Docutils does not write `\ref` macros. How do you get a table number in the document?  Can you provide your test file (and info about how it is converted)?

Did you try your patch with the Docutils test suite? Here, I get `FAILED (failures=4, errors=21, skipped=1)` and a lot of  additional (spurious) labels **after** longtables.


    



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** [bugs:#440] longtable labels in the wrong place**

**Status:** pending-remind
**Created:** Tue Dec 21, 2021 11:39 PM UTC by Erik Hansen
**Last Updated:** Wed Dec 22, 2021 04:10 AM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
**Attachments:**

- [0001-Move-longtable-labels-to-table-body.patch](https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/bugs/440/attachment/0001-Move-longtable-labels-to-table-body.patch) (1.7 kB; text/x-patch)


The latex2e writer outputs `\label{}` for tables after `\end{longtable}`. This is incorrect causing the table referencing to end up with empty reference text rather than the table number. The author of the `longtable` latex package suggest putting the `\label{}` inside the caption itself  `\caption{My caption \label{mylabel}}` or inside the table body. The latter option has the added benefit of working for tables without  a caption. I've attached a proposed fix.

`longtable` package documentation can be found at https://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ctan.org/macros/latex/required/tools/longtable.pdf. See page 4 and 5 about the discussion on labeling.


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