Thanks a lot for your hint.

Then I would still have to fix the return statement.

BP schrieb am Donnerstag, 14. Januar 2021 um 11:43:32 UTC+1:

> I think you should use `elem.caption = {}`
>
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> Den tors 14 jan. 2021 10:41Stephan Boltzmann <stephan2...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> 
> skrev:
>
>> Hello everybody out there using Pandoc,
>>
>> I would like to remove the caption from tables in PDF output and tried a 
>> couple of things without success:
>>
>> if FORMAT:match 'latex' then
>>   function Table (elem)
>>     --caption = elem.caption
>>     caption = elem.c[2] -- caption seems to be second element
>>     print(pandoc.utils.stringify(caption))
>>     --elem.c[2] =  nil
>>     --elem.c[2] =  pandoc.Str('Test')
>>     --elem.caption =  nil
>>     --elem = nil
>>     --return {pandoc.Table(elem.c)}
>>     --return {elem}
>>     --elem:remove(2)
>>     --table.remove(elem.c,2)
>> --[[
>>     return {
>>       pandoc.Para(pandoc.Str('test'))
>>     }
>> --]]
>>     return {
>>       --pandoc.Table(elem.caption, elem.aligns, elem.widths, 
>> elem.headers, elem.rows)
>>     }
>>   end
>> end
>>
>> The main problem could actually rather be the construction of the table 
>> using the function pandoc.Table in the return statement:
>> Could not read list: Could not get Block value: expected table, got 'nil' 
>> (nil)
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