Compilation error when using italic text in LaTeX table caption

Bug description

If I attempt to use LaTeX formatting commands (e.g. \textit{italic text}) inside a table caption and the table has a cross-ref, the document will not compile. Removing the italic command compiles successfully. I assume this is true of any arbitrary LaTeX comand. The reason this is important is because I want to set arbitrary styling for the caption, and in particular I want to be able to have a "title" in the caption, which I do via italic/bold text.

Steps to reproduce

---
title: "Reprex for Italic Table issue"
format: pdf
---

Below I cross-ref @tbl-example

\begingroup
\centering
\begin{table}
   \begin{tabular}{lr}
      \tabularnewline \midrule \midrule
      Text Here & 123 \\
      Text Here & 456 \\
      \midrule \midrule
   \end{tabular}
   \caption{\label{tbl-example} \textit{Italic} A caption goes here}
\end{table}
\par\endgroup

Behavior

When Quarto re-writes the table to hook up the cross-ref, it generates the following invalid intermediate LaTeX which will not compile. You can see that the italic text gets pulled up into the caption, but the stuff following the } closing curly brace does not, leaving it stranded under the tabular environment, and causing a compilation error because the caption now wraps all the way around the table.

\begin{table}

\caption{\label{tbl-example} \textit{Italic}

\centering{

   \begin{tabular}{lr}
      \tabularnewline \midrule \midrule
      Text Here & 123 \\
      Text Here & 456 \\
      \midrule \midrule
   \end{tabular}
    A caption goes here}

}

\end{table}%

Your environment

• IDE RStudio Version 2024.04.0+735 (2024.04.0+735)
• MacOS Sonoma 14.6.1
• R version 4.3.2

Quarto check output

Quarto 1.4.553
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.1.11: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.69.5: OK
      Deno version 1.37.2: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.4.553
      Path: /Applications/RStudio.app/Contents/Resources/app/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: (not installed)
      Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Using: Installation From Path
      Path: /Library/TeX/texbin
      Version: 2024

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.12.4
      Path: /opt/homebrew/opt/python@3.12/bin/python3.12
      Jupyter: (None)

      Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
      Install with python3 -m pip install jupyter

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.3.2
      Path: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
      LibPaths:
        - /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources/library
      knitr: 1.45
      rmarkdown: 2.25

[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

maja:writing aaron$ 

Use the provided Quarto .qmd reproduction and render it to PDF with the table cross-reference and italic caption. Inspect the generated intermediate LaTeX around the rewritten table caption, then verify that the complete caption remains inside the caption command and the document compiles successfully.