How to ref a table

[sebpardo]

The question on how to reference a figure has already been answered here, but the answer doesn't fully apply for tables: https://github.com/Wandmalfarbe/pandoc-latex-template/issues/189

Referencing a table with \label{} and \ref{} doesn't seem as straightforward given there is no obvious table object to label inside of, as is the case for figures. Is there a way to do this?

[Wandmalfarbe]

You may want to look at https://github.com/lierdakil/pandoc-crossref. I vaguely remember that one should be able to reference tables with this filter.

You could also use raw LaTeX with table captions (https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-table_captions)

This is untested:

# Some Heading

There will be table \ref{mylabel}. 
Some Paragraph here.

Table: This is the table caption \label{mylabel}

  Right     Left     Center     Default
-------     ------ ----------   -------
     12     12        12            12
    123     123       123          123
      1     1          1             1

[sebpardo]

Thank you @Wandmalfarbe. Just tried it and can confirm that using the table_captions pandoc extension and placing the \label{} within the caption paragraph does the trick.