How to use a bibliography citation in a Latex table within Quarto?

[plierouge]

Description

Hello,

I am new to Quarto. I know a little about Latex. I am writing a scientific paper with R code in Quarto (R Studio). I found that creating table in plain Markdown code is too limited. So I create a latex table. Example:

\begin{table}[]
\centering
\caption{Blah}
\label{tab:my-table}
\begin{tabular}{lll}
\hline
& Title 1 & Title 2 \
\hline
Row 1 & 12 & 14 \
Row 2 & 11 & 16 \
\hline
\multicolumn{3}{l}{}
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

Let say I want to add a * after Title 2 and put a bibliographic reference in the { } of the \multicolumn line.

What code should I use? I tried @{label} and \cite{label}. Nothing works.

Could someone help me?

Thanks!

[mcanouil]

Hi and welcome!

Use HTML table with markdown in it, Quarto will take care of the rest, see https://quarto.org/docs/prerelease/1.3/tables.html#embedded-markdown-content-can-be-specified.
Note you need Quarto >= 1.3.

[plierouge]

Hello!

Is it this you suggest?

---

title: "html_table"
format: pdf

<style type="text/css"> .tg {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;} .tg td{border-style:solid;border-width:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;overflow:hidden; padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;} .tg th{border-style:solid;border-width:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal; overflow:hidden;padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;} .tg .tg-0lax{text-align:left;vertical-align:top} .tg .tg-tf2e{text-align:left;vertical-align:top} </style>

C1	C2	C3
1	2	3
4	5	6

My file name is html_table.qmd, so a Quarto file.

[plierouge]

[mcanouil]

Could use code blocks as shown in my example?
It's pretty hard to read un formatted code, also we lose the ability to make clean copy of the code for reuse/test purposes.

Also take a second read at https://quarto.org/docs/prerelease/1.3/tables.html#embedded-markdown-content-can-be-specified.

[plierouge]

OK sorry... first time using this forum! A table generated by https://www.tablesgenerator.com/

---
title: "html_table"
format: pdf
---

<style type="text/css">
.tg  {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;}
.tg td{border-style:solid;border-width:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;overflow:hidden;
  padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;}
.tg th{border-style:solid;border-width:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;
  overflow:hidden;padding:10px 5px;word-break:normal;}
.tg .tg-0lax{text-align:left;vertical-align:top}
.tg .tg-tf2e{text-align:left;vertical-align:top}
</style>
<table class="tg">
<thead>
  <tr>
    <th class="tg-0lax">C1</th>
    <th class="tg-0lax">C2</th>
    <th class="tg-0lax">C3</th>
  </tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
  <tr>
    <td class="tg-tf2e">1</td>
    <td class="tg-tf2e">2</td>
    <td class="tg-tf2e">3</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="tg-0lax">4</td>
    <td class="tg-0lax">5</td>
    <td class="tg-0lax">6</td>
  </tr>
</tbody>
</table>

[cscheid]

style tags won't work in PDF format, but the table tags will. The documentation is here. Note that you can't just write the table directly like that. You need to wrap the code in a raw block, like so:

```{=html}
<table class="tg">
<thead>
  <tr>
    <th class="tg-0lax">C1</th>
    <th class="tg-0lax">C2</th>
    <th class="tg-0lax">C3</th>
  </tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
  <tr>
    <td class="tg-tf2e">1</td>
    <td class="tg-tf2e">2</td>
    <td class="tg-tf2e">3</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="tg-0lax">4</td>
    <td class="tg-0lax">5</td>
    <td class="tg-0lax">6</td>
  </tr>
</tbody>
</table>
```

[plierouge]

[mcanouil]

No worries, it's fine.

I apologise as I realise the documentation (there is an ongoing PR to improve this exact part) is implying some components, so here is a full example on how to use HTML tables to be used in PDF.

Quarto document

PDF

--- title: "Quarto Playground" format: pdf bibliography: ref.bib --- ```{=html} <table> <caption> <span data-qmd="As described in @einstein1905, computers are great."> </span> </caption> <thead> <tr> <th><span data-qmd="_Header 1_"></span></th> <th><span data-qmd="_Header 2_"></span></th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td><span data-qmd="__Bold Markdown text__"></span></td> <td>Regular output</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> ```

[plierouge]

Ah... fantastic!

[plierouge]

Another question...
Is it possible to decide where to put the horizontal lines in the pdf table output? Typically, I would like to have a "footnote table" under the last line of the table. See my amino acid table in the pdf output for an example.

Thanks again for your patience and your great advice!

[mcanouil]

I have to admit that I don't know for sure, but the HTML tag <tfoot></tfoot> might work.

[mcanouil]

@plierouge if you feel your question has been addressed, could you mark the answer?