Long Tables in Latex

Question

I am inserting a table in to a file that already has some text in it. This is at the end of a section and right before the beginning of another.

1. First I added the following code (sample, the real table is a real long one)

   \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c} a&b&c&d\ \hline c&d&e&f\ \hline \end{tabular}

   Everything is fine. However I realise I need a caption to the table. So,

2. I change the code to

   \begin{table} \caption {title} \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c} a&b&c&d\ \hline c&d&e&f\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{table}

   Now the table jumps into the next section and starts 3-4 lines after the next section.

what am I doing wrong here?

~LaTeX newbie using MikTex 2.8 on Windows 7

Answer 1

try using the longtable package. or you can use \begin{table}[!h]