kochhar@harvard.harvard.EDU (Sandeep) (02/20/91)
hi! I have a tabular environement within a minipage. When I use \footnote with that tabular environement, latex generates alphabetic subscripts for the footnotes (a, b, ...). However, if within the same tabular, I use \footnotemark, I get numerical subscripts (1, 2, ...). Is there a way to generate alphabetic subscripts using \footnotemark within the tabular as above. (I need it 'cos I'm trying to reference the same footnote at various entries in the table.) Thanks. Sandeep Kochhar Harvard University email: kochhar@harvard.harvard.edu 33 Oxford st, tel: (617) 495-3988 Cambridge, MA 02138 fax: (617) 495-9837
dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (02/23/91)
You folks must not be reading my posts... In article <1991Feb20.201841.1@euler.claremont.edu>, dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) writes: > In article <5766@husc6.harvard.edu>, kochhar@harvard.harvard.EDU (Sandeep) writes: >> I have a tabular environement within a minipage. When I use >> \footnote with that tabular environement, latex generates alphabetic >> subscripts for the footnotes (a, b, ...). However, if within >> the same tabular, I use \footnotemark, I get numerical subscripts (1, 2, ...). >> Is there a way to generate alphabetic subscripts using \footnotemark within >> the tabular as above. >> (I need it 'cos I'm trying to reference the same footnote at various >> entries in the table.) > Here is my recommendation: > \newenvironment{aroundtbl}{\begin{flushleft}\begin{minipage}{\linewidth} > \begin{center}}{\end{center}\end{minipage}\end{flushleft}} > \newcommand{\fnref}[1]{\footnotemark[\ref{#1}]} > ... > \begin{aroundtbl} > \begin{tabular}{lll} > Some text\footnote{The first occurrence of this footnote\label{first}}& > More text&Even more text\fnref{first}\\ > Additional text\footnote{A different footnote\label{different}}& > More text\fnref{first}&And more text\fnref{different} > \end{tabular} > \end{aroundtbl} The definition of \fnref above will not work. I forgot that \footnotemark's optional argument must be a number (it generates the appropriate footnote mark based on that number). A working definition would be: \newcommand{\fnref}[1]{\hbox{$^{\ref{#1}$} If you want to be a little more bullet-proof, the following definition should appear in a style option or be surrounded by \makeatletter .. \makeatother \def\fnref[1]{\def\@thefnmark{\ref{#1}}\@makefnmark} which will track the document style's printing of footnote markers (assuming the style is defined correctly. -dh --- Don Hosek To retrieve files from ymir via the | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu mailserver, send a message to | Quixote TeX Consulting mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a | 714-625-0147 line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt Binary files are not available by this technique.