#92 \ref returns section number instead of table number

[dila]

In a large, complex document references to tables only show ??, yet the links created by hyperref work. In an attempt to debug this I made a MWE and found that with scrartcl references to tables show the section number, while with article they show the table number, see code below. Is that a bug, or have I forgotten how ref works in KOMA-Script? I am using TeX Live 2025 with koma-script 76100 (3.46).

\documentclass{scrartcl}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}
    \centering%
    \caption{Caption}%
    \label{aefgaert}%
    \begin{tabular}{ll}
        A & B\\
        1 & 2
    \end{tabular}
\end{table}

\begin{table}
    \centering%
    \caption{Caption}%
    \begin{tabular}{ll}
        A & B\\
        1 & 2
    \end{tabular}
\end{table}

\section{Section 1}

\section{Section 2}

\begin{table}
    \centering%
    \caption{Caption}%
    \label{fghhfgdfghr}%
    \begin{tabular}{ll}
        A & B\\
        1 & 2
    \end{tabular}
\end{table}

See \ref{aefgaert}. See \ref{fghhfgdfghr}.

\end{document}

[Markus Kohm]

Thank you for the report.

It's a bug and I've fixed it in [r4203]. As a workaround you can move the \label command inside the \caption argument. Another workaround would be to add

\usepackage[disablepatch=caption]{tocbasic}

to the document preamble, but this would also disable several features like option captions=tableabove (which you should use in your example).

But note, that with the new fix, package caption under some circumstances throws additional warnings:

Package caption Warning: The type was already set to `\@captype '

These warnings can be ignored. Unfortunately package caption is no longer maintained and so I cannot ask the maintainer to remove these warnings.

For other caption warnings see also [wiki-en:Warning_captionUnknownClass] (English) resp. [wiki-de:Warning_captionUnknownClass] (German).

[dila]

Thanks.

That almost certainly means that subcaption, which the original document is currently using, is no longer maintained, too.

[Markus Kohm]

Not by Axel Sommerfeldt. He discontinued development of all his packages.

But with [r4203] at least the combination of subcaption and KOMA-Script classes works again – despite the shown warning message.