Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Changing caption insertion within longtable

[Mosè Giordano]

2016-11-23 16:45 GMT+01:00 Arash Esbati <address@hidden>:
> Hi Mosè,
>
> Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 2016-11-23 15:45 GMT+01:00 Arash Esbati <address@hidden>:
>>>
>>> Note the `\\ <newline> \label'.  The code works, of course, but it looks
>>> odd to me.  Is there any objection if I apply the patch attached?
>>
>> Yes.  As far as I know, the label must appear after the caption macro,
>
> Thanks for your response.  Regarding this part, we are on the safe side.
>
>> not even inside it, see http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/32325/31416 and
>> http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/20816/31416.
>
> Are you referring to the issue when `\usepackage{showlabels}' is given?
> For me, this is not a showstopper.  Have a look further below for this
> answer http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/20834/76063 and the comments.
>
> Even longtable manual says:
>
>     8 Verbatim highlights from Table 1
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>       KILLED & LINE!!!! \kill
>       \caption[An optional table caption ...]{A long table\label{long}}\\

I was referring also to this answer
http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/20834/76063 by Martin Scharrer, but
David Carlisle must have good reasons to suggest that in the manual.

I have only one comment about the patch: use

    (insert TeX-esc "caption")

instead of

    (insert "\\caption")

Bye,
Mosè