Support short caption in formats other than `latex`

[Minh-AnhHuynh]

Bug description

Hello,

Per this issue, I am reporting a bug when trying to crossreference a figure:

Using quarto, I am unable to crossref using regular citation syntax, with short-captions.lua pandoc filter. Figures without the short caption filter can be crossreferenced but not with that filter. I am forced to use the latex alternative which is less practical for another reason.

I am not sure if the problem comes from quarto or this filter.

![**Bold caption** [@Armas.2004]](figure.jpeg){#fig-cap short-caption="**short-cap**"}

@fig-cap returns ?@fig-cap

Anything that is not @fig- breaks as quarto expects a bibliography citation instead.
@fig:test returns (fig:test).

\ref{fig-cap} works.

Here is a minimal reproductible example.

Instead, I have to use \ref{fig-cap} to reference my figure. The issue is that going to visual mode would remove the bold modifications I make, which is why I would have liked to use the quarto syntax.

For example, (**Figure \ref{fig-cap}**) is returned as (**Figure** \ref{fig-cap}) in visual mode which is not what I want.

I am using the latest version of quarto (1.2.335) and RStudio (4.2.2) on Windows 11, 22H2 lastest version.

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[cscheid]

EDIT: This isn't a bug. Don't use that filter; use fig-scap instead:

![This is the long R logo caption.](R_logo.png){#fig-R-short-cap fig-scap="R logo"}

It works out of the box.

[Minh-AnhHuynh]

EDIT: This isn't a bug. Don't use that filter; use fig-scap instead:

![This is the long R logo caption.](R_logo.png){#fig-R-short-cap fig-scap="R logo"}

It works out of the box.

Thank you so much for the answer. It makes writing my thesis so much easier.

I am encountering the same issue with in-built markdown pandoc tables. I have looked for any solutions regarding short captions for tables. Am I not wrong in assuming that it is not yet natively included ? So far I have found this issue where it is possible using knitr::kable(caption.short=...).

[cscheid]

Can you provide a short, fully self-contained example that shows of how you'd like to fig-scap in a table and how it doesn't work?