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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-ftncapt.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-ftncapt.html index f02c5ebd728..878f094aa45 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-ftncapt.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-ftncapt.html @@ -4,12 +4,17 @@ <h3>Footnotes in captions</h3> <p/>Footnotes in captions are especially tricky: they present problems of their own, on top of the problems one experiences with -<a href="FAQ-ftnsect.html">footnotes in section titles</a> and with -<a href="FAQ-footintab.html">footnotes in tables</a>. Fortunately, the -requirement for footnotes in captions is extremely rare: if you are -experiencing problems, it is worth reviewing what you are trying to -say by placing this footnote. Note that the <i>threeparttable</i> -scheme (see, again, +<a href="FAQ-ftnsect.html">footnotes in section titles</a> (footnotes migrating to +to the list of figures or tables, or +<a href="FAQ-extrabrace.html">apparently random errors</a> because +<code>\</code><code>footnote</code> is a fragile command), and with +<a href="FAQ-footintab.html">footnotes in tables</a> (typically, the footnote +simply disappears). Fortunately, the requirement for footnotes in +captions is extremely rare: if you are experiencing problems, it is +worth reviewing what you are trying to say by placing this footnote: +other options are to place text at the bottom of the float, or to +place a footnote at the point where you refer to the float. +<p/>Note that the <i>threeparttable</i> scheme (see, again, <a href="FAQ-footintab.html">footnotes in tables</a>) also applies to notes in captions, and may very well be preferable to whatever you were thinking of. @@ -42,12 +47,12 @@ command in a <code>minipage</code> environment within a float (as in the example above) can produce <em>two</em> copies of the footnote body “blah”. (In fact, the effect only occurs with captions that are long enough to require two lines to be typeset, and so wouldn’t appear -with such a short caption.) +with such a short caption as that in the example above.) <p/>The documentation of the <i>ccaption</i> package describes a really -rather awful work-around. +rather awful work-around for this problem. <dl> -<dt><tt><i>ccaption.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ccaption.zip">macros/latex/contrib/ccaption</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ccaption.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ccaption/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>threeparttable.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc/threeparttable.sty">macros/latex/contrib/misc/threeparttable.sty</a> +<dt><tt><i>ccaption.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ccaption.zip">macros/latex/contrib/ccaption</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ccaption/">browse the directory</a>) +<dt><tt><i>threeparttable.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archivemacros/latex/contrib/misc/threeparttable.sty">macros/latex/contrib/misc/threeparttable.sty</a> </dl> <p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ftncapt">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ftncapt</a> </body> |