Tables not allowed in minipage?

[Donal Lyons]

I've two labelled tables that I want to keep together, so it seemed
likea good idea to put them into minipage. The minipage is happy
enough with tabular but objects to a table environment:

! LaTeX Error: Not in outer par mode.

Since I want labels, tabular alone isn't enough.

Is there an obvious solution?

Donal.
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[Diego Zamboni]

dlyons_remo...@stats.tcd.ie (Donal Lyons) writes:

> I've two labelled tables that I want to keep together, so it seemed
> likea good idea to put them into minipage. The minipage is happy
> enough with tabular but objects to a table environment:
>
> ! LaTeX Error: Not in outer par mode.

I think you have to do it the other way around; i.e. put the minipage
environment inside the table. Also, remember that it is the \caption
that defines a new figure/table, not the figure/table environment. So
you could do something like this:

\begin{table}
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{l|l}
bla & bla
\end{tabular}
\caption{bla bla 1}
\end{center}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{r|r}
ble & ble
\end{tabular}
\caption{bla bla 2}
\end{center}
\end{minipage}
\end{table}

Actually, I'm pretty sure that it would work the way you want even
without the minipage, because LaTeX always places the whole contents
of a table environment together.

Cheers,
--Diego