Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Arabic footnotes needed but I keep getting lower case letter

[Patel]

Hi there, I have a problem. My footnotes come up with lowercase letters no matter what I attempt to renew the command to. I would like to use arabic footnotes in this table and use symbols later on for another table, but for some reason I just can't change the command in this file. Please help me. I've been messing with this for 4 hours now!


\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{setspace}
\onehalfspace
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{longtable}

\title{Discrimination at Home; An analysis in to the earnings performance of British born ethnic minorities in the first decade of the 21st Century}
\date{22 January 2010}

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section{Introduction}

\begin{table}[htbp]
\centering
\caption{Darity \& Nembhard (2000); Key Monthly Income Ratios: Selected Countries}
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
\begin{tabular}{l c c}
\hline
{\bf Country} & {\bf Inferior/Dominant} & {\bf Monthly Income Ratio} \\
\hline
{\bf Malaysia} & Malay/Chinese & 0.46-0.57 \\
& Indian/Chinese & 0.8-0.81 \\
& SC \footnote[1]{SC are the Scheduled Castes, these are the religiously inferior caste and include the``Dalits" also known as the``untouchables".}/Other & 0.78-0.79 \\
& Muslim/Brahmin & 0.53 \\
{\bf India} & Sikh/Brahmin & 0.87 \\
& Hindu Low Caste/Brahmin & 0.55 \\
& Hindu Middle Caste/Brahmin & 0.53 \\
& Hindu High Caste/Brahmin & 1.03 \\
{\bf Belize} & Creole/White & 0.52 \\
& Mestizo/White & 0.38 \\
& Black/White & 0.12 - 0.46 \\
{\bf South Africa} & Coloured/White & 0.23-0.47 \\
& Asian/White & 0.37-0.63 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{minipage}

\label{tab:addlabel}
\end{table}
\end{document}

[localghost]

Footnotes in a minipage environment always appear as lowercase letters. The according counter is called mpfootnote. What you want is not called footnotes, but table notes. For this you can use the threeparttable package. Since this package has no documentation in PDF format, you have to look at the *.sty file itself to get some instructions.

Next time please use the code environment to tag code as such. This keeps a post clear and legible.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Patel]

Seriously, thank you. I really appreciate your speedy reply. Sorry about the lack of code, I didn't know the etiquette. I probably won't use threewaytable as suggested, it takes me several hours to get to grips with every new package and dissertation in on Friday. But your reply helped me go on to find how to adjust mini page footnotes and although it looks messier it's good enough for me.

Thank you once again.

[localghost]

[…] Sorry about the lack of code, I didn't know the etiquette. […]

Can be read in the Board Rules (which should have been done before posting).

[…] I probably won't use threewaytable as suggested, it takes me several hours to get to grips with every new package and dissertation in on Friday. […]

Just for your inspiration. With some enhancements by means of the booktabs package.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf,tableposition=top]{caption}
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\usepackage{booktabs,threeparttable}

\title{Discrimination at Home; An analysis in to the earnings performance of British born ethnic minorities in the first decade of the 21st Century}
\date{22 January 2010}

\begin{document}
  \maketitle

  \section{Introduction}

  \begin{table}[!ht]
    \begin{threeparttable}
      \caption{Darity \& Nembhard (2000); Key Monthly Income Ratios: Selected Countries}\label{tab:addlabel}
      \centering
      \begin{tabular}{lcc}\toprule
        \textbf{Country} & \textbf{Inferior/Dominant} & \textbf{Monthly Income Ratio} \\ \midrule
        \textbf{Malaysia} & Malay/Chinese & 0.46--0.57 \\
        & Indian/Chinese & 0.8--0.81 \\
        & SC \tnote{1} /Other & 0.78--0.79 \\
        & Muslim/Brahmin & 0.53 \\
        \textbf{India} & Sikh/Brahmin & 0.87 \\
        & Hindu Low Caste/Brahmin & 0.55 \\
        & Hindu Middle Caste/Brahmin & 0.53 \\
        & Hindu High Caste/Brahmin & 1.03 \\
        \textbf{Belize} & Creole/White & 0.52 \\
        & Mestizo/White & 0.38 \\
        & Black/White & 0.12--0.46 \\
        \textbf{South Africa} & Coloured/White & 0.23--0.47 \\
        & Asian/White & 0.37--0.63 \\ \bottomrule
      \end{tabular}
      \begin{tablenotes}
        \footnotesize
        \item[1] SC are the Scheduled Castes, these are the religiously inferior caste and include the "Dalits" also known as the "untouchables".
      \end{tablenotes}
    \end{threeparttable}
  \end{table}
\end{document}

Moreover you should use \textbf{…} (LaTeX2e) instead of \bf (LaTeX2.09) to change font styles in your document.

[zvonsully]

To get arabic footnote markers in the minipage environment renew \thempfn command:

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\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
   \renewcommand{\thempfn}{\arabic{mpfootnote}}
   ...
\end{minipage}