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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label footintab</title>
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<h3>Footnotes in tables</h3>
<p/>The standard LaTeX <code>\</code><code>footnote</code> command doesn’t work in tables; the table
traps the footnotes and they can’t escape to the bottom of the page.
<p/>If your table is floating, your best bet is (unfortunately) to put the
table in a <code>minipage</code> environment and to put the notes
underneath the table, or to use Donald Arseneau’s package
<i>threeparttable</i> (which implements “table notes” proper).
<p/>The <i>ctable</i> package extends the model of
<i>threeparttable</i>, and also uses the ideas of the
<i>booktabs</i> package. The <code>\</code><code>ctable</code> command does the complete
job of setting the table, placing the caption, and defining the
notes. The “table” may consist of diagrams, and a parameter in
<code>\</code><code>ctable</code>’s optional argument makes the float that is created a
“figure” rather than a “table”.
<p/>Otherwise, if your table is not floating (it’s just a
‘<code>tabular</code>’ in the middle of some text), there are several
things you can do to fix the problem.
<ul>
<li> Use <code>\</code><code>footnotemark</code> to position the little marker
appropriately, and then put in <code>\</code><code>footnotetext</code> commands to fill in
the text once you’ve closed the <code>tabular</code> environment.
This is described in Lamport’s book, but it gets messy if there’s
more than one footnote.
<li> Stick the table in a <code>minipage</code> anyway. This provides all the
ugliness of footnotes in a minipage with no extra effort.
<li> Use <i>threeparttable</i> anyway; the package is intended for
floating tables, and the result might look odd if the table is not
floating, but it will be reasonable.
<li> Use <i>tabularx</i> or <i>longtable</i> from the LaTeX
tools distribution; they’re noticeably less efficient than the
standard <code>tabular</code> environment, but they do allow
footnotes.
<li> Grab hold of <i>footnote</i>, and put your
<code>tabular</code> environment inside a <code>savenotes</code>
environment. Alternatively, say
<code>\</code><code>makesavenoteenv{tabular}</code> in the preamble of your
document, and tables will all handle footnotes correctly.
<li> Use <i>mdwtab</i> from the same bundle; it will handle
footnotes properly, and has other facilities to increase the beauty
of your tables. It may also cause other table-related packages (not
the standard ‘tools’ ones, though) to become very unhappy and stop
working.
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<p/>The documentation of <i>threeparttable</i> appears in the package
file itself; that of <i>ctable</i> is distributed as a PDF
file (for convenience’s sake).
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<dt><tt><i>ctable.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ctable.zip">macros/latex/contrib/ctable</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ctable.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ctable/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>footnote.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools.zip">macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>longtable.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.zip">macros/latex/required/tools</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>mdwtab.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools.zip">macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/mdwtools/">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>tabularx.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.zip">macros/latex/required/tools</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools/">browse</a>)
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