Short table captions for list of tables

[kaymmm]

I have a request for the same functionality as that implemented in #2417 but for tables/list of tables.

I'm not sure what the syntax would look like since the current format for table captions is very different from that of figures, but perhaps something like this:

Table: Caption for text {!short caption for LOT}

Using the curly-bang would leave backwards compatibility intact and would avoid interfering with the pandoc-tablenos syntax. It's not the most intuitive symbol and isn't entirely consistent with other uses of the bang (!), but it's somewhat similar to the figure syntax.

I view this as a pretty important feature because you typically don't want to include citations in the LOT, but need them in the actual table caption (footnotes are also broken in captions, but that's a different issue).

[Minh-AnhHuynh]

I'm seconding this. I tried looking for the mentioned issues but I'm not sure it has been solved for tables and using \listoftables. As far as I know there is no alternative text for markdown tables.

In quarto it is possible to have the fig-scap argument but not for tables.