[texhax] subtables within a table on different pages

[Arvind Marathe]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Nina Mazumdar <nina.mazumdar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Arvind Marathe <bahuroopi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Nina Mazumdar <nina.mazumdar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Thanks a lot Nina. This seems to work. Only a small doubt, is it
>> possible to have a caption for the whole \subtables?
>> Right now, I have something like:
>>
>> Table 1a: Caption whatever
>> Table 1b: Caption whatever
>> Table 1c: Caption whatever
>> Table 1d: Caption whatever
>>
>> I would also like to have, after "Table 1d: Caption whatever", another
>> common caption for all the tables, something like:
>>
>> Table 1: The 4 tables describe blah blah blah
>>
>> Is that possible? I am not able to put a caption outside the last
>> \end{table} and \end{subtables}. If a put a caption before the last
>> \end{table}, it numbers it as Table 1e: and not as Table 1.
>
> Please modify the last table as given below:
>
> \begin{table}
>  ...
> \caption{Fourth subtable caption}
> \def\thesubfloattable{\themaintable}
> \caption{The 4 tables describe blah blah blah}
> \end{table}
> \end{subtables}

Yes, it does the job. Thank you so much Nina.

Arvind