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<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 &ldquo;blah&rdquo;. (In fact, the effect only occurs with captions that are
long enough to require two lines to be typeset, and so wouldn&rsquo;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>
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