How to make the longtable to work with centering & caption on memoir class?

Question

I am trying to use memoir class with longtable environment, but no success:

\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{longtable}

\begin{document}

\begin{longtable}
    \centering
    \caption{Caption of the normal \texttt{table} environment.}
    \begin{tabular}{rrrrrrrrr}
        1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\
        1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1
    \end{tabular}
    \label{table}
\end{longtable}

\end{document}

Do the error:

 test2.tex:7: Class memoir Error:  Illegal pream-token (\centering): `c' used. [    \centering]

Changing longtable by table does work correctly with no errors or warnings. How to make the longtable to also work?

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Well, the table by itself does not fit in only one page. So would be nice if it split by itself. — user, Aug 15 '17 at 17:49
I'd suggest starting with longtable by using the example code at the end of the longtable doumentation. — Werner, Aug 15 '17 at 17:54
Indeed. Start there, and remove the content you don't need, and change whatever you want to keep. You won't see the construction you started with. Starting with the documentation is always good. — Werner, Aug 15 '17 at 18:46
longtable has the same syntax as tabular, you need to specify the columns with {ccccccc} or some such argument. — David Carlisle, Aug 15 '17 at 18:47

Bernard · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-15T17:55:53.063

2

\centering is automatic for long tables, and the caption is part of the environment. So try with this syntax:

\begin{longtable}{*{8}{c}}
    \caption{Caption of the normal \texttt{table} environment.}
    \label{table}\\
  \endfirsthead
\multicolumn{8}{c}{\tablename~\thetable\enspace(continued)}\\
  \endhead
        1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 \\
        1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1 & 1
\end{longtable}

edited Aug 15 '17 at 17:55

answered Aug 15 '17 at 17:50

Bernard

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How to make the longtable to work with centering & caption on memoir class?

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