How do I suppress redundant lot (list of table) entries in quarto book pdf output?

[bergsmat]

Description

I'm using Quarto 1.6.39 with RStudio 2024.12.0 and R 4.4.2.

I created an instance of the quarto book template, then edited _quarto.yml like this:

pdf:
    documentclass: scrreprt
    toc: false
    lot: true

In intro.qmd I appended this:

```{r}
#| label: tbl-longtable
#| tbl-cap: A Long Table
set.seed(0)
knitr::kable(
  data.frame(
    index = 1:20, 
    letter = sample(letters, 20, replace = TRUE)
  )
)
```

Then I executed quarto render at the terminal prompt.

By design, my table spans multiple pages. What I notice is that by default I get a repeated table caption on each page: Table 1.1: A Long Table and each of these is included in the list of tables with correct page numbers, but the hyperlinks in the list of tables all point to the first page.

I have no objection to the repeated table captions, but I do not find the repetition in the lot to be helpful. How can I suppress the redundant (and possibly incorrectly-linked) entries in the list of tables? (I could not find an existing issue or discussion on this topic.)

[arnaudgallou]

Does knitr::kable(longtable = TRUE) fix your problem?

[bergsmat]

@arnaudgallou Thanks for the suggestion! Regrettably, passing longtable = TRUE to knitr::kable() makes no change to the output.

[cderv]

I believe this is an issue related to Markdown table conversion to longtable by Pandoc, and then Quarto processing adding \caption{} without taking into account possible splitting.

I'll transform this to an issue if not one already.

[cderv]

• How do I suppress redundant lot (list of table) entries in quarto book pdf output? #11890