Message-ID: <3AA0D685-529B-4E16-B01A-3731EFE75AF4@me.com>
Date: 2012-08-20T20:27:42Z
From: Marc Schwartz
Subject: A LaTeX question -- Hope people won't mind
In-Reply-To: <1345493582.51195.YahooMailClassic@web161601.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
On Aug 20, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Paul Miller <pjmiller_57 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Hope people won't mind my posting a LaTeX question here. I know a lot of people who use R are also using LaTeX. I'm in a bit of a rush to complete a document and am having trouble with one aspect of the formatting.
>
> I'm creating a list of tables using:
>
> \listoftables
>
> I also have some table captions that contain the number of patients in an anlysis like:
>
> \caption{Results for Random Forest Model Using Scoring Data (N = 700)}
>
> The tables look great. Trouble is that LaTeX inserts the "(N = 700)" into the text in the List of Tables at the beginning of the document. I'd prefer that it not do so.
>
> Is there some simple way to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
Hi Paul,
See this page:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Floats,_Figures_and_Captions#Lists_of_figures_and_tables
The \caption command has primarily two arguments:
\caption[short text]{long text}
Note that the first part, within the square brackets, will be the text included in the list of tables.
So in your example above:
\caption[Results for Random Forest Model Using Scoring Data]
{Results for Random Forest Model Using Scoring Data (N = 700)}
Regards,
Marc Schwartz