General ⇒ Caption and footnote

[jean88]

I need to have a footnote in a caption.

I have something like this:

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\begin{table}[t]
	<cutted useless text>
	\caption{Foo\protect\footnotemark }
\end{table}
\footnotetext{Bar}

Table is displaced on page 8 and footnote on page 7. What causes this problem?

[localghost]

Footnotes in conjunction with floating objects are often problematic. The footnote will always appear on the page where it is declared even if the associated float is moved to the next page. This is caused by the mechanism of how TeX composes pages. Generally it is better to typeset figure (or table) notes by putting the figure contents into a minipage environment and then using the \footnote command as usual.

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\begin{table}[!ht]
  \caption{Foo}\label{tab:foo}
  \centering
  \begin{minipage}{<width>}
  % table contents
  \end{minipage}
\end{table}

The varwidth package might make this more flexible.


Best regards
Thorsten

[jean88]

Thanks. I'll try it out. I found also difficulties with long footnotes, continued on the next page. Is there a way to change the maximum footnote length?