Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ footnotes in tables

[bulbanos]

hey

I'm aware of the issue that that footnotes declared in a tabular environment are not displayed at the bottom of the page. I did not find any clear solution for that.
I don't want my footnote right beneath the table so a minipage is not right. I want the footnote counter to be increased automatically so I think \footnotemarks aren't good for me.
So is there any other solution to put \footnote{} inside a table and have the explanation at the bottom of the same page?

[localghost]

Don't use a float environment but the \captionof command provided by the caption package. This allows you to use footnotes as usual.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[bulbanos]

I'm not completely through the documentation but it looks to me as if it's only of use when you want to add footnotes in captions. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[localghost]

[...] Correct me if I'm wrong.

Feel corrected. Just try my suggestion.

[Eenzc]

Hello,

I have a similar but slightly different problem that is not solved by those suggestions above:

I have a table and inside the table I want to footnote things. I don't want to use minipage because I don't like the look of a footnote directly under the table or caption, I want it at the bottom of the page.

How can I do this?

Code below is NOT acceptable

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\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline
Electrode															&	Potential vs. Standard Ag/AgCl 	\\
																		&	(\SI{}{V})											\\
\hline
Ag/AgCl Wire													&	0.000														\\
Metrohm Double Junction\footnotemark[1]								&	-0.002													\\
Metrohm (Glass frit \# 1)\footnotemark[2]						& +0.008 													\\
Metrohm (Glass frit \# 2)						& +0.030 													\\
Radiometer (Ref 201, Red Rod) \# 1		& -0.010 													\\
Radiometer (Ref 201, Red Rod) \# 2		& -0.010													\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
 \footnotetext[1]{Metrohm electrode: 6.0726.100}
 \footnotetext[2]{Metrohm electrode: Inner; 6.0724.140 + Electrolyte vessel; 6.1225.010}
\end{minipage}
\caption{Relative potentials of specific Ag/AgCl reference electrodes used in this author's laboratory vs. prepared Ag/AgCl wire standard electrode.}
\label{Table:Ag_Cl_Potentiometry}
\end{table}

[Eenzc]

Can anyone help?

I've been struggling with this for a while, I just can't get my footnotes at the bottom of the page, they always appear either under the table or under the caption both of which I don't want.

Thanks for you time.

[Eenzc]

PS: I do not understand how to use the \captionof command, the documentation for it is very confusing for a layman like me.

In addition the package documentation of tabularx says you can use \footnote in tabularx but it doesn't work for me. The footnote does not appear at all.

[localghost]

PS: I do not understand how to use the \captionof command, the documentation for it is very confusing for a layman like me. [...]

From my point of view the caption manual is very clear in that. Consider the following example.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[includehaedfoot,margin=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf,tableposition=top]{caption}
\usepackage{lmodern}

\parindent0em

\begin{document}
  \begin{center}
    \captionof{table}{Relative potentials of specific Ag/AgCl reference electrodes used in this author's laboratory vs. prepared Ag/AgCl wire standard electrode.} \label{Table:Ag_Cl_Potentiometry}
    \begin{tabular}{|c|c|} \hline
      Electrode & Potential vs. Standard Ag/AgCl \\
      & V \\ \hline
      Ag/AgCl Wire & 0.000 \\
      Metrohm Double Junction\footnotemark[1] & -0.002 \\
      Metrohm (Glass frit \# 1)\footnotemark[2] & +0.008 \\
      Metrohm (Glass frit \# 2) & +0.030 \\
      Radiometer (Ref 201, Red Rod) \# 1 & -0.010 \\
      Radiometer (Ref 201, Red Rod) \# 2 & -0.010 \\ \hline
    \end{tabular}
    \footnotetext[1]{Metrohm electrode: 6.0726.100}
    \footnotetext[2]{Metrohm electrode: Inner; 6.0724.140 + Electrolyte vessel; 6.1225.010}
  \end{center}
\end{document}

The example should also work when inserting the footnotes in the table. But it would make the table code very unclear.

[...] In addition the package documentation of tabularx says you can use \footnote in tabularx but it doesn't work for me. The footnote does not appear at all.

Substantiate this allegation by means of a minimal working example (MWE).


Best regards
Thorsten