Section titles appear after tables (PDF)

[mattocci27]

Section titles appear after tables because Quarto produces tex files starting tables with \begin{table} instead of \begin{table}[h!]. I can edit tex files but it is easier if Quarto can directly generate tex files starting tables with \begin{table}[h!]. Are there any easy way to place section titles before tables?

Reference:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/354897/section-title-appears-after-the-table

[cderv]

How are you creating your table in the Quarto document ?

Just asking because it can be created different ways, including with Computation (like with a R package). Depending on the option, the tool that generate the LaTeX table is not the same so it would help know more about this.

Thank you !

[mattocci27]

Yes, it might be an R specific problem.

This generates the section name in a weird place.

\newpage

# Table

```{r}
#| label: tbl-iris
#| tbl-cap: "Iris Data"

library(knitr)
kable(head(iris))
```

This works fine.

```
\newpage

# Table

| Col1 | Col2 | Col3 |
|------|------|------|
| A    | B    | C    |
| E    | F    | G    |
| A    | G    | G    |

: My Caption {#tbl-letters}

See @tbl-letters.
```

[cderv]

Thanks that helps a lot!

When using knitr::kable() for PDF output, LaTeX table will be generated by knitr by default (not markdown).

You can control the LaTeX behavior using argument in the function. position = "h! should allow you to add the [h!] after \begin{table}

More on configuration in https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown-cookbook/kable.html#customize-latex-tables looks for position

You could also force to use Markdown table using the format argument in kable. You may loose some nice knitr feature though.

[mattocci27]

Thanks! It worked without cross-reference but didn't work with cross-reference.

\newpage

# Tables

```{r}
#| label: tbl-iris
#| tbl-cap: "Iris Data"
library(knitr)
kable(head(iris), format = "latex", table.envir = "table", position = "h!")
```

The above qmd code generates adds [h!] to a wrong place:

\begin{table}
\caption{\label{tbl-iris}Iris Data }\tabularnewline
[h!]

Is this a problem of knitr::kable()?

[cderv]

No this is something related to quarto. We solved such type of issues in the past, but it seems we missed some edge case.
Thanks for the report. I opened #2295 to track