Michael Logies wrote: > when I introduce a third column in your example, it will not work anymore.
example file ... > You write: > http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/LaTeX/table/longtable.phtml > if you have a mix of longtable with and without captions, than write after > every longtable without a caption: > \addtocounter{table}{-1} > > I was thinking about placing a float-table (only for the capton) directly > in front of and fixed to my longtable. But this does not work, because > \addtocounter{table}{-1} then leads to an error message, which says, that > 2 table have the same name in the document now. sure, the problem is the longtable. As I wrote, longtable uses the same counter than table. so use longtable in the way described in the above page and not together with another float. There are also some other packages, which provide a caption outside a floating environment. Herbert
