General ⇒ Restore the footnote format for minipage

[csmgroup]

The Tufte handout class give a neat layout that shows the footnote at the right hand side not bottom line.

But, when I use the minipage with tufte-handout, and if the minipage has the footnote, the footnote is broken as the attached file.

Is there a way to correct this problem? Is there a way to restore the normal footnote behavior for minipage?

I attach the tufte class just in case.

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\documentclass{tufte-handout}
\usepackage{tikz}
\newcommand{\clj}{\textcolor{blue}{\textsc{clojure}}}

\title{Week 31, August$^{1st}$ 2010}
\newlength{\RoundedBoxWidth}
\newsavebox{\GrayRoundedBox}
\newenvironment{GrayBox}[1][\dimexpr\textwidth-4.5ex]%
   {\setlength{\RoundedBoxWidth}{\dimexpr#1}
    \begin{lrbox}{\GrayRoundedBox}
       \begin{minipage}{\RoundedBoxWidth}}%
   {   \end{minipage}
    \end{lrbox}
    \begin{center}
    \begin{tikzpicture}%
       \draw node[draw=black,fill=black!10,rounded corners,%
             inner sep=2ex,text width=\RoundedBoxWidth]%
             {\usebox{\GrayRoundedBox}};
    \end{tikzpicture}
    \end{center}}

\begin{document}

\vskip2ex
\begin{GrayBox}[1.2\textwidth]
The caller uses `use' to use \verb|CLASSPATH/hello.clj|. Now, it's OK to call
the (hi).\footnote{hello}
\end{GrayBox}
\end{document}

[localghost]

Try \footnotemark and \footnotetext and see what happens.


Best regards
Thorsten

[csmgroup]

Thanks for the answer.

The \footnotetext{...} gives me the correct footnote content, but the number is not shown at the bottom, and even when I give the page number as \footnotetext[\thefootnote]{hello} the number is shown in alphabetical form. And even, it gives me the error message -

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l.29 The caller\footnotemark{\value{footnote}}
                                              \footnotetext[2]{hello} uses `...

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\documentclass{tufte-handout}
\usepackage{tikz}
\newcommand{\clj}{\textcolor{blue}{\textsc{clojure}}}

\title{Week 31, August$^{1st}$ 2010}
\newlength{\RoundedBoxWidth}
\newsavebox{\GrayRoundedBox}
\newenvironment{GrayBox}[1][\dimexpr\textwidth-4.5ex]%
   {\setlength{\RoundedBoxWidth}{\dimexpr#1}
    \begin{lrbox}{\GrayRoundedBox}
       \begin{minipage}{\RoundedBoxWidth}}%
   {   \end{minipage}
    \end{lrbox}
    \begin{center}
    \begin{tikzpicture}%
       \draw node[draw=black,fill=black!10,rounded corners,%
             inner sep=2ex,text width=\RoundedBoxWidth]%
             {\usebox{\GrayRoundedBox}};
    \end{tikzpicture}
    \end{center}}

\begin{document}
hello\footnote{experiment}
%\newcounter{\myfootnote}
%\setcounter{\myfootnote}{\value{footnote}}
\vskip2ex
\begin{GrayBox}[1.2\textwidth]

The caller\footnotemark{\value{footnote}}\footnotetext{hello} uses `use' to use \verb|CLASSPATH/hello.clj|. Now, it's OK to call
the (hi).%\footnotemark[\value{\myfootnote}]

\end{GrayBox}
hello\footnote{experiment again}
\end{document}

[csmgroup]

Stefan answered this question here. The quick answer is

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\let\thempfootnote\thefootnote