General ⇒ Footnote appears before a table

[simonvlc]

Hi again,

I wish anyone could help me with this. I have a table in a page where must be a footnote, but this one appears just before the table instead at the bottom of the page.

This is the code:

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Some random text.\footnotemark

Some random text \textsf{table}.

\begin{table}
\begin{center}\small
\begin{tabular}{lll}
pt & punt & 1pt = 0,351mm \\
pc & pica & 1pc = 12pt = 4,218mm \\
\hline
mm & mi\l.límetre & 1mm = 2.845pt \\
cm & centímetre & 1cm = 28,45pt = 10mm \\
\hline
ex & ics & alçada de la lletra ’x’ \\
em & ema & amplada de la lletra ’M’
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption{Unitats diverses}
\end{table}

\footnotetext{Footnote text}

Any idea in how to prevent this? Thanks in advance, Simon!

[localghost]

There are two possible solutions. The first one is to use the footmisc package with an option that forces footnotes to be set at the bottom of the page.

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\usepackage[bottom,flushmargin,hang]{footmisc}

Refer to the documentation of the package to learn more. The second approach is to prevent float environments to be placed at the bottom of the page by giving some optional parameters which control their placement.

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\begin{table}[!ht]
  \small
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{lll}
    ...
  \end{tabular}
  \caption{Unitats diverses}\label{tab:unidiv}
\end{table}

For explanations about float placement you should refer to some basic LaTeX documentation.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[simonvlc]

Thanks again Thorsten! The second one worked like a charm !