Figure rendered inside a table in MS Word when using fig-cap

It'd be nice to change how this is laid out for the reasons pointed out, but we currently hard code that decision.

Discussed in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/3999

^{Originally posted by jtrecenti January 17, 2023}
Hi! Thank you very much for developing Quarto. It is awesome.

I was trying to tweak table styles in MS Word (painful, but needed) when I realized that this code:

---
title: "Untitled"
format: docx
---

Lets's see @fig-aaa.

```{r}
#| label: fig-aaa
#| fig-cap: a nice figure.
plot(1:10)

generates this document:

Note the "+" sign on the top left of the image and the table styling options at the top menu, indicating that we are inside a table.

So, apparently, when we use fig-cap:, it wraps the figure and the caption inside a 1-cell table.

Two questions

1. Is this the desired behavior?
2. Is it possible to turn it off?

Thanks!

Start by reading the linked Discussion #3999 and reproducing the supplied R example with docx output and fig-cap. Trace how Quarto represents a figure with a caption and how that becomes a one-cell table in the Word document. Done means the intended layout is established and the hard-coded table behavior is either changed or made controllable without losing the caption.