Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Footnotes for Table or Figure

[bargessa70]

Hi All, I'm relatively new to Latex so forgive me if my question sounds too basic.

I would like to add some comments or footnote (just below the table/figure) after the table or figure caption (e.g. this table/figure) was drawn using data ... Please help.

[NoIdeaNickanme]

Use footnote command at the place you want your footnaote to appear, e.g.

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This is caption text.\footnote{Footnote text}

In the link above you'll also find a few tips on modifications of footnote numbering.

Hope it helps,
a.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

footnotes within figure and table environments can be a problem, since they can float over pages, so it's unclear where the footnote text would appear. Possibly it doesn't appear at all.

For notes to tables, threeparttable is a useful package.

Regarding figures or tables, you could use a minipage within the figure or table environment. Within this minipage, you could place additional text or footnotes.

Or simply place your notes in the \caption command, such as

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\caption[short caption for the list of tables]{long caption with extra notes,
  could be several lines, for the text}

Stefan

[bargessa70]

Thanks for those who have responded. However I suspect I was not undertood because none of the proposed solutions work. This is what I want to do: I want to have some comments (in small scripts) just below the title of a figure/table. For instance: (This table was drawn using data from so and so...). And as you can imagine I want this to appear in the main body and not in the table of contents/list of figures. i would prefer solutions that do not include downloading more packages (if possible). Please help.

[bargessa70]

I finally found a solution to this (see:http://texblog.org/2007/07/30/list-of-figures-and-list-of-tables-listoffigures-listoftables/).

In brief, let the additional words be part of the caption (may be enclosed in brackets). Then use the following script:
\caption[shorter caption for lof/lot]{long caption for figure/table}

The shorter version is what you want to appear in the list of figures (lof) or list of tables (lot) while the longer version is the caption plus any additional words that you may wish to add.