General ⇒ footnote in epigraph (memoir class)

[alexv]

I need to have a footnote in \epigraph like this

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\documentclass[oneside,final,12pt]{memoir}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\begin{document}

\chapter*{Fist Chapter}
\epigraph{This is epigraph}{Somebody famous\footnote{locally}}

Test Test Test
\end{document}

Unfortunately it places the footnote's text inside epigraph environment instead of the bottom of the page - like all other footnotes - which looks unusual. Is it possible to fix the footnote's placement?

Thanks

[localghost]

Probably the epigraph is a minipage. You can try \footnotemark and \footnotetext. But I think the chances for success are low.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[alexv]

Probably the epigraph is a minipage. You can try \footnotemark and \footnotetext.

Thanks for the advice. I finally found the solution. The \footnotemark/\footnotetext was indeed my first approach but then I found footnote package (part of mdwtools). The package provides the savenotes environment which takes care of collecting the footnotes in (in my case) epigraph and placing them together with regular footnotes at the bottom of the page.


Alex

[itemState]

hi,

can you please paste your result with the `footnote` package and `epigraph`.

my try is this

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\begin{savenotes}
\epigraph{«But...»\footnote{Test}}
\end{savenotes}

but this doesn't compile

if i do this in an isolated document, it works, but not in my paper. The error goes like "Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. <argument> ...@finalstrut \strutbox }\fn@endnote }" -- no matter where in my text i try to place it.

the packages i use apart from `footnote` are `[utf8]{inputenc}`, `aeguill`, `times`, `ifpdf`, `caption`, `subfigure`, `[english]{babel}`, `epigraph`, `fancyvrb` and a custom conference .sty which is based on IEEE or AMS (don't know -- but doesn't look exotic). Document class is `article`.


thx

[itemState]

I use `\footnotemark` and `\footnotetext` now which do work as intended.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi itemState,

welcome to the board!

It's great that you posted your solution. Btw. I could not test your code lines because the savenotes environment is unknown in article and epigraph, perhaps it comes from your custom .sty file.

Stefan