Broken captions for tables on Word documents

[tkerwin]

In docx file output from quarto, tables created with apa_table are prefixed with

(#tab:unnamed-chunk-8)
**

-- where "8" is whatever the chunk number is.

Adding a caption field gets rid of the ** but the erroneous table cross-reference code is still there.

I see there is a pull request from the word-fixes branch that looks like it could fix the issue, but it is not in the released version. Right now the released version is unusable for professional document output without editing the document after generation.

[crsh]

Hi Thomas, I just merged the branch. Could you try installing from the main branch and let me know if this fixes the problem for you?

[tkerwin]

This fixes a problem, but does not solve it completely for me. The fixes you merged in make the table work properly when using RMarkdown + Bookdown. However, it doesn't work for Quarto documents.

It looks like the problem is that Bookdown wants Table: (\#tab:table-name) Caption, but Quarto wants : Caption {#tbl-table-name} (or a table label and caption metadata in the block).

I've tried to find out how to detect if the block is being parsed with RMarkdown or Quarto but I'm not sure if there is an easy way. My suggestion would be to have a configuration flag somewhere in papaja to tell the library if you want Bookdown style output or Quarto style output.

[scsphd]

I am having the same problem with an html document. My code in a chunk called ALS:
ordinal <- lapply(ord_vars, ord_table) # custom function to create the descriptives tables I want, across a list of ordinal variables
for (i in 1:length(ord_vars)) {
cat(
papaja::apa_table(ordinal[[i]],
label = NA,
caption = paste("Descriptives for", ord_vars[i])),
"\n\n"
)}

The caption is printed as:

(#tab:ALS) Descriptives for ALSlower

I've tried doing some things that people report have interfered with reference labels, but the problem persists.

Thanks!

[crsh]

Hi there, can you try using the document format bookdown::html_document2 to see if this fixes the issue? If it does not, can you share a minimal reproducible example? Also, could you try using different labels for each table?

[scsphd]

bookdown::html_document2 did the trick. Thank you!

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