Left aligned caption

[cwilso6]

I am hoping to left aligned table caption, This issue was closed here https://github.com/davidgohel/flextable/issues/425.

I copied the code provided:

---
title: "Untitled"
format: 
  docx:
    keep-md: false
---

library(flextable)
library(officer)
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = FALSE)
fpp <- fp_par(text.align = "left", padding = 3)

blah blah blah r run_reference(id = "tbl-flextable-1").

#| label: tbl-flextable-1
#| tbl-cap: dummy
#| ft.align: right
ft <- flextable(mtcars[1:4, 1:4])
ft |>
  set_caption(
    caption = as_paragraph(
      "Caption ",
      as_chunk("strong", props = fp_text_default(bold = TRUE))
    ),
    align_with_table = FALSE,
    word_stylename = "Table Caption",
    fp_p = fpp
  )

#| label: tbl-flextable-2
#| tbl-cap: dummy

ft |>
  set_caption(
    caption = as_paragraph(
      "Caption ",
      as_chunk("strong", props = fp_text_default(bold = TRUE))
    ),
    align_with_table = TRUE, # default
    word_stylename = "Table Caption",
    fp_p = fpp
  )

and it produced the following:

Notice that the captions are all on the left of the page (not the left of the table), I am getting different output than what you have shown in the previous thread.

[davidgohel]

Hello, this is a quarto Word document. Quarto is managing captions on its own. With flextable, it works with PDF and HTML but not Word. That's an issue we are aware of since quarto exists, we can't do anything about it.

You can read flextable documentation about it here: https://davidgohel.github.io/flextable/reference/set_caption.html#using-quarto-

[davidgohel]

This issue can be closed, captions seem to work as expected with Quarto 1.4.549 with Word PDF and HTML. 'flextable' does not emit any caption when used in Quarto.

For future readers, TLTR, set_caption() has not effect with Quarto that manage captions on its own.

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