Table captions continued

Question

I am writing an article which has a long table with many rows. I would like to divide this table for multiple pages but I can not change the captions of these tables like "Table 1: Blablabla" and for the second page "Table 1 Continued: Blablabla" and so on. My MWE and its output.

I want to remove "Continued" from pages after the first.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[left=2.5cm,top=2.5cm,right=2.5cm,bottom=2.5cm,bindingoffset=0.1cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[!htb]
\centering
\caption {Some Members of the Suggested Estimator}
\label{Tab:1}
\smallskip
\begin{tabular}{c  c  c }
\toprule
A subset of $\overline{y}_{NH}$ & $\textbf{a}$ & $\textbf{b}$\\
\midrule
test1 & 1 & 0 \\
\midrule
test2 & 1 & 1 \\
\midrule
test3 & \newline 1 & \newline $\beta_{2} \left(x\right)$ \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\begin{table}[!htbp]
\centering
\caption* {\textbf{Table 1 Continued:} Blablabla}
\smallskip
\begin{tabular}{c  c  c }
\toprule
A subset of $\overline{y}_{NH}$ & $\textbf{a}$ & $\textbf{b}$\\
\midrule
test4 & $C_{x} $ & $\rho_{yx} $ \\
\midrule
test5 & $\rho _{yx} $ & $C_{x} $ \\
\midrule
test6 & $\rho _{yx} $ \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Can anyone help me about it?

Answer 1

The package longtable allows you to define

1. a header for the first page by \endfirsthead
2. a header for all next pages by \endhead
3. a footer fo all pages expect the last one by \endfoot
4. a footer for the last page by \endlastfoot.

In your case you can do:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[paper=a6paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}

\begin{document}

\begin{longtable}{ccc}
\caption {Some Members of the Suggested Estimator}\label{Tab:1}\\\toprule
\endfirsthead
\caption* {\textbf{Table \ref{Tab:1} Continued:} Blablabla}\\\toprule
\endhead
\endfoot
\bottomrule
\endlastfoot
A subset of $\overline{y}_{NH}$ & $\textbf{a}$ & $\textbf{b}$\\
\midrule
test1 & 1 & 0 \\
\midrule
test2 & 1 & 1 \\
\midrule
test3 & \newline 1 & \newline $\beta_{2} \left(x\right)$ \\
\midrule
A subset of $\overline{y}_{NH}$ & $\textbf{a}$ & $\textbf{b}$\\
\midrule
test4 & $C_{x} $ & $\rho_{yx} $ \\
\midrule
test5 & $\rho _{yx} $ & $C_{x} $ \\
\midrule
test6 & $\rho _{yx} $ \\
A subset of $\overline{y}_{NH}$ & $\textbf{a}$ & $\textbf{b}$\\
\midrule
test1 & 1 & 0 \\
\midrule
test2 & 1 & 1 \\
\midrule
test3 & \newline 1 & \newline $\beta_{2} \left(x\right)$ \\
\midrule
A subset of $\overline{y}_{NH}$ & $\textbf{a}$ & $\textbf{b}$\\
\midrule
test4 & $C_{x} $ & $\rho_{yx} $ \\
\midrule
test5 & $\rho _{yx} $ & $C_{x} $ \\
\midrule
test6 & $\rho _{yx} $ \\
\end{longtable}

\end{document}

Answer 2

You don't need to use the longtable. Simply use the caption package and make your first table normally with \caption{} and label it and then in the caption of the second table put: \caption*{label{table1}}.

That is it, it prevents the numbering of the second table.

Answer 3

A very late answer ... but now we have new package for simple writing of tables

• I understand that you actually have one long table, which you so far split in two parts manually (and have problem with tables numbering)
• This can be elegant avoided by use of long table and appropriate define captions and column heads on the first and other pages with your table
• For exercise lets examine, how this can be (simple) done by use longtblr, a longtable equivalent defined in the tabularray package. At this:
• define caption style by caption package
• used math mode for columns wit math expresions
• inserting small vertical space after each two rows :

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=2.5cm,
            bindingoffset=0.1cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[skip=0.25ex,
            format=plain,
            labelfont=bf,labelsep = colon,
            font=small]{caption}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\UseTblrLibrary{booktabs}
\ExplSyntaxOn
% for caption style
\prg_generate_conditional_variant:Nnn \tl_if_empty:n { e } { TF }
\let \IfTokenListEmpty = \tl_if_empty:eTF
% for grouping of rows
\NewChildSelector{eachtwo}
  {
    \int_step_inline:nnnn {2}{2}{\l_tblr_childs_total_tl}
      { \clist_put_right:Nn \l_tblr_childs_clist {##1} }
  }
\ExplSyntaxOff
% modifying the captions of tabularray
\DefTblrTemplate{firsthead}{default}%
{\addtocounter{table}{-1}%
 \captionof{table}{\InsertTblrText{caption}}%
}
\DefTblrTemplate{middlehead,lasthead}{default}%
{\addtocounter{table}{-1}%
 \captionof{table}[]{\InsertTblrText{caption} (Continued)}%
}
\SetTblrStyle{contfoot-text}{font=\footnotesize\itshape, gray5}
%---------------- Show page layout. Don't use in a real document!
\usepackage{showframe}
\renewcommand\ShowFrameLinethickness{0.15pt}
\renewcommand*\ShowFrameColor{\color{red}}
%---------------------------------------------------------------%
\usepackage{lipsum}% For dummy text. Don't use in a real document
\begin{document}
\section{Test}
\lipsum[1-6]
\begin{longtblr}[
caption={Some Members of the Suggested Estimator},
  label={Tab:1}, ]{rowhead = 1,
                    colsep = 9pt,
                   colspec = {@{} >{\normalfont}c Q[c,$] Q[c,$] @{}},
                    row{1} = {font=\bfseries, mode=text},
                    rowsep = 0.5pt,
              row{eachtwo} = {abovesep=1ex},
                  }
    \toprule
A subset of $\overline{y}{\mathrm{NH}}$
        & a             & b             \
    \midrule
test 1  & 1             & 0             \
test 2  & 1             & 1             \
test 3  & 1             & \beta{2}(x)  \
test 4  & C_{x}         & \rho_{yx}     \
test 5  & \rho_{yx}     & C_{x}         \
test 6  & \rho _{yx}    &               \
test 7  & 1             & 0             \
test 8  & 1             & 1             \
    \bottomrule
\end{longtblr}
\end{document}

(red lines indicate page layout)

In the case, that in document has LoT (ListofTables), than setings in MWE had to be replaced with solution described in L.J.R. answer.

Answer 4

Taking the code from the link you provided, removing the 'continued...' parts can be done by:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{longtable}
\begin{document}      

\begin{longtable}{ccc}
\caption{My caption for this table\label{foo}}\\\hline
Column 1 & Column 2 & Column 3\\\hline
\endfirsthead
\caption* {\textbf{Table \ref{foo} Continued:} Blablabla}
\hline
Column 1 & Column 2 & Column 3\\\hline
\endhead % all the lines above this will be repeated on every page
\hline
\multicolumn{3}{r@{}}{continued \ldots}\\
\endfoot
\hline
\endlastfoot
A & B & C\\     A & B & C\\
A & B & C\\     A & B & C\\
A & B & C\\ \newpage
A & B & C\\     A & B & C\\
A & B & C\\     A & B & C\\
\end{longtable}
\end{document}

If that was the only problem, then you should be able to put your own data in using these header/footer definitions.