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+<head>
+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label ftncapt</title>
+</head><body>
+<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-footintab.html">footnotes in tables</a>) also applies
+to notes in captions, and may very well be preferable to whatever you
+were thinking of.
+<p>If you <em>are</em> going to proceed:
+<ul>
+<li> use an optional argument in your <code>\</code><code>caption</code> command, that
+ doesn't have the footnote in it; this prevents the footnote
+ appearing in the "List of ...", and
+<li> put your whole float in a <code>minipage</code> so as to keep
+ the footnotes with the float.
+</ul>
+so we have:
+<blockquote>
+<pre>
+\begin{figure}
+ \begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
+ ...
+ \caption[Caption for LOF]%
+ {Real caption\footnote{blah}}
+ \end{minipage}
+\end{figure}
+</pre>
+</blockquote>
+However, <em>as well as</em> all of the above, one <em>also</em> has to
+deal with the tendency of the <code>\</code><code>caption</code> command to produce the
+footnote's text twice. For this last problem, there is no tidy
+solution this author is aware of.
+<p>If you're suffering the problem, a well-constructed <code>\</code><code>caption</code>
+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.)
+<p>The documentation of the <i>ccaption</i> package describes a really
+rather awful work-around.
+<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>
+</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>