Document Classes ⇒ elsarticle | Table Footnotes and 'endfloat' package

[tafi]

I've gotten into a bit of a pickle and the issue originates with the elsarticle class.

My first problem was that I needed a footnote to be added to a table. Simple \footnotemark and \footnote text commands within the table float environment did not work as expected. I read somewhere that this could not be done with regular tables in elsarticle (a great shame since it is a common need to add footnotes to tables, particularly in scientific documents).

The solution to this was to use the ctable package, with which i can produce nice looking tables and uuse footnotes.

However, now I'm trying to use endfloat to move all floats to the end of the document for submission to NIM A. Murphy must be watching over me, because endfloat is not compatible with ctable.

This seems to be an impossible situation. has anyone come across a similar issue?

Is there a workaround that will allow me to add table footnotes without using ctable?

Elsevier ask that authors don't use complicated macros (And my latex knowledge is limited to packages and options) so I'm looking for the path of least resistance.

[sommerfee]

The threeparttable package allows footnotes for tables, too. Another option would be using the floatrow package, which allows footnotes for floating environment like "figure" and "table".

[tafi]

Thanks sommerfree,

I decided to use threepartable. It seems to have been around longer than floatrow and the usage was far easier to understand.

Booktabs also allows me to get the same look as ctable without the hassle.

Thanks again.