Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ What's wrong with Tables after updating to TeXLive2015 ?

[Cham]

I have tables that are now stopping compilation with an error message, after upgrading my LaTeX installation from TeXLive2011 to TeXLive2015. I don't understand why.

The tables were compiling perfectly with TeX2011. With TeX2015, the message reads as

Package caption Error: Can be used only in preamble.

Here's a MWE code that shows the problem. Apparently, there's something wrong in the caption setup, but I don't see what. I've consulted the caption package documentation, and didn't found the mistake yet :

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\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,twoside]{book}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[dvipsnames,table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{subfig}
\captionsetup[table]{tablename=Table,labelfont={bf,up}}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}
	\centering
\begin{tabular}{cl*5{>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{1cm}}}
	\arrayrulecolor{black}
	\toprule[1.5pt]
	\toprule[0.5pt]
	$A$ & & $B$ & $C$ & $D$ & $E$ & $F$ \\
	\midrule
	1 & Word 1 : & $1$ & $0$ & $3$ & $1$ & $1$ \\[4pt]
	2 & Word 2 : & $0$ & $1$ & $4$ & $1$ & $1$ \\[4pt]
	3 & Word 3 : & $2$ & $0$ & $3$ & $4$ & $1$ \\[2pt]
	\bottomrule[0.5pt]
	\bottomrule[1.5pt]
	\end{tabular}
	\caption[Bla bla]{Bla bla bla.}
\end{table}

\end{document}

If I remove the \captionsetup line from the preamble, the error message is gone.

So what is wrong here ? Why the error message ?

[Cham]

What the ... ? Removing the option tablename=Table appears to solve the issue. But then I still don't understand what is going on.

EDIT : Apparently, the option tablename doesn't exist anymore (?), and need to be change to name only. Is that it ?

[Johannes_B]

It indeed seems to be, that tablename got obsolete with time. The error you receive is quite strange though.

A few other things you might consider:

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\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,twoside]{book}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[dvipsnames,table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{subfig}% declared obsolete by the l2tabu team -> subcaption
\captionsetup[table]{name=Table,labelfont={bf,up},position=below}

\newcommand{\chamaddlinespace}{\addlinespace[4pt]}
\begin{document}

The defaultaddspace equals \the\defaultaddspace{} (.5em).
\begin{table}
	\centering
	\begin{tabular}{cl*5{>{\centering\arraybackslash$}p{1cm}<{$}}}
		\arrayrulecolor{black}
		\toprule[1.5pt]
		\toprule[0.5pt]
		$A$ & & B & C & D & E & F \\
		\midrule
		1 & Word 1 : & 1 & 0 & 3 & 1 & 1 \\\chamaddlinespace
		2 & Word 2 : & 0 & 1 & 4 & 1 & 1 \\\addlinespace
		3 & Word 3 : & 2 & 0 & 3 & 4 & 1 \\\addlinespace[2pt]
		\bottomrule[0.5pt]
		\bottomrule[1.5pt]
	\end{tabular}
	\caption[Bla bla]{Bla bla bla.}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Do you see, that the amount of dollar signs is significantly lower?

[Cham]

Thanks for the reply.

So changing subfig to subcaption should be enough ? No need to change anything else ? I'm nervous with this.

EDIT : Hmm, nope. Changing my subfig to subcaption gives error messages at compilation. All my figures setings are now messedup.

I HATE this obsolete crap with LaTeX !

[Johannes_B]

I think we had the discussion before in which i explained the diferences and advantages/disadvantages of the two packages. The comment was meant for other user who stumble over this post.

EDIT: Here it is: http://latex-community.org/forum/viewto ... 917#p88917

[sommerfee]

Apparently, the option tablename doesn't exist anymore (?), and need to be change to name only. Is that it ?

No, the option tablename still exists. But it has to be used as global option on the preamble, e.g. \captionsetup{tabelname=Table}.

Code like \captionsetup[table]{tablename=Table} tries to redefine the table name at every table caption, and therefore strange things could happen, for example when used with the babel, hyperref, or subcaption package.

This was always the case, but older versions of the caption package didn't take care about the wrong usage of the "tablename" option, and newer versions of the caption package gives an error instead.