Question

I am making a document with many tables. But, the only way I know how to refer to them in the text is with a :ref:'my_table' and that puts the entire table name, “The long title of my table” in my text block. I would rather have it put in “Table 1.3” instead … is that possible?

.. _my_table:

.. csv-table:: The long title of my table
   :file: my_table.csv
   :header-rows: 1

A separate but table related questions: is there a sphinx/docutils option for putting the table name/caption at the bottom rather than the top or is that a stylesheet/latex thing?

Answer 1

There’s probably not a super-easy way to do this, but the numfig extension (as referenced in this question) does something very like this for Figures, and could probably be modified/adapted to do something similar for Tables.

A custom extension like this is probably the only way to accomplish this at present.