\
caption
command, that
doesn’t have the footnote in it; this prevents the footnote
appearing in the “List of ...”, and
minipage
so as to keep
the footnotes with the float.
\begin{figure} \begin{minipage}{\textwidth} ... \caption[Caption for LOF]% {Real caption\footnote{blah}} \end{minipage} \end{figure}
However, as well as all of the above, one also has to
deal with the tendency of the \
caption
command to produce the
footnote’s text twice. For this last problem, there is no tidy
solution this author is aware of.
\
caption
command in a minipage
environment within a float (as
in the example above) can produce two 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.)
The documentation of the ccaption package describes a really
rather awful work-around.
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