[331] in SIPB bug reports
latex: footnotes in tabbing env
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 21 17:05:31 1989
From: amgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 89 17:04:52 EST
To: raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Ken Raeburn's message of Tue, 21 Feb 89 16:46:18 EST <8902212146.AA17375@PROMETHEUS.MIT.EDU>
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bjaspan writes:
> I just found this one; and since LaTeX is supported in the next release,
> it matters....
> LaTeX doesn't handle footnotes inside a tabbing environment properly.
> Spefically, it superscripts the footnote's number, but doesn't actually
> place the text of the footnote anywhere.
If Jaspan had bothered to read pages 99 and 156 in the LaTeX manual,
he'd know why this is actually correct behavior and how to get a
footnoted table entry, which is bad design and the reason you can't
do it in LaTeX is because I decided you shouldn't be able to.
\end{Lamport}
But, since I'm a kinder, gentler soul, I'll explain that it is
meaningless (as far as LaTeX is concerned) to have a footnote
within a box; and each item in a tab environment is in its own
box.
Page 99 explains how to use a minipage to get a footnote within
a table entry, but that won't help. The solution is to use
\footnotemark where the mark is supposed to appear; and then
use \footnotetext{This is the text.} at the end of the tab
environment. This is explained at the top of page 156.
- Rhu (sorry for the Lamport-flame; I'm parodying Lamport, not
making fun of Barr3y. :-)
