Comments on: LaTeX: adding footnotes in tables (or other floats)

By: A Okasha

A Okasha — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:00:53 +0000

Thanks a lot.
That’s really help

By: Bambar

Bambar — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:54:00 +0000

Thank you Jason. It also worked for me. Nice!

By: Bernardes

Bernardes — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 03:04:15 +0000

Other way very simple is to make:

\newcommand{\newfootnotemark}[1]{\addtocounter{footnote}{#1} \footnotemark[\value{footnote}]}
\newcommand{\newfootnotetext}[2]{\addtocounter{footnote}{#1} \footnotetext[\value{footnote}]{#2}}

in the preamble and to use as

\begin{table}[htb]
\centering
\large
\setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{2\arrayrulewidth}
\setlength{\belowcaptionskip}{10pt}
\caption{\it Caption da Tabela.}
\begin{tabular}{|l|r|}
\hline
\multicolumn{2}{|c|}{\textbf{Mesclar Duas Colunas}} \\
\hline
\textbf{Módulo} & \textbf{Dias}\\
\hline
Modulo I & 10 \newfootnotemark{1} \\
\hline
Módulo II & 5 \newfootnotemark{1}\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\newfootnotetext{-1}{Nota do Módulo I.}
\newfootnotetext{1}{Nota do Módulo II.}

By: Vincent Gibbs

Vincent Gibbs — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:34:01 +0000

Why not just use: \protect\footnotemark[1] then use \footnotetext[1]{your text} where ever you want the foot not to appear.

By: Stefan Koch

Stefan Koch — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:22:09 +0000

It is possible to use \footnotemark which will increase the counter by one automatically and then set the text via \footnotetext{text}. Works fine in my LaTeX-file.

By: Sami

Sami — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:25:59 +0000

How to change the style of the footnote to appear the numbers in prackets
like (1), (2) instead of: 1. 2.
thanks

By: bummen

bummen — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:00:54 +0000

Excellen share Jason.. thank you very much.. perfect solution

By: Yue

Yue — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:51:37 +0000

Thank you Jason. The threeparttable worked for me!!

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:38:59 +0000

Thanks for the post. I found it only AFTER I found another solution. I am not for sure which is more robust or which requires less typing. Here is the solution that I found searching TUG.

\usepackage{threeparttable}

\begin{table}
\begin{threeparttable}
\begin{tabular}{cc}
something weird\tnote{a} & something even weirder\tnote{b}
\end{tabular}
\begin{tablenotes}
\item [a] What is so weird?
\item [b] Oh that is what is weird
\end{tablenotes}
\end{threeparttable}
\end{table}

The surrounding table makes sure that table handles the float. There are some options that are provided by the package. Additionally, the package ctable will do something similar. However, ctable requires a totally new syntax structure for building the table. Thus, I used threeparttable and it WORKED.

By: Brandon Heller

Brandon Heller — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:42:51 +0000

Thanks for the post, David!

I had a problem where I could see the inline footnote number in the table, but no footnote description was printed at the bottom of the page.

The solution was to move the \footnotetext block out of the table block that enclosed the tabular with my footnote. You might want to update the example with a tabular inside a table to show this.