set_caption does not work when rendered in quarto, but does with print() command

[mlamias]

It seems that set_caption does not appear to be working (for me, at least) when rendering in Quarto to a Word document using the following yaml header:

---
project:
  title: "Test"
format: docx

editor: visual
---

I have the following code in my .qmd file:

```{r}
#| echo: false
cars |> flextable() |> 
flextable::set_caption("THIS TEST")
```

Unfortunately, this seems to produce the following in my Word document:

However, if I issue the following statement in R console:

cars |> flextable() |> set_caption("THIS TEST") |> print(preview="docx")

I obtain the following Word document which produces the appropriate caption above the table:

I assume this should work since the set_caption() documentation reads:

When working with 'R Markdown' or 'Quarto', the caption settings defined with set_caption() will be prioritized over knitr chunk options.

Is this a bug with flextable, Quarto, or am I missing something?

[davidgohel]

It's a missing feature in Quarto. See #565 (comment), #494, quarto-dev/quarto-cli#1556, https://davidgohel.github.io/flextable/reference/set_caption.html#using-quarto-, https://ardata-fr.github.io/flextable-book/captions-and-cross-references.html#cross-references

Captions will work in Quarto with HTML and PDF but not Word.

[mlamias]

Thanks @davidgohel. Sorry I missed this in the documentation. I did read through several pages and through opened cases, but I totally missed these. Thanks for pointing this out. I really appreciate the assist.

[davidgohel]

This issue can be closed, captions seem to work as expected with Quarto 1.4.549.

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

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