Am Dienstag, 10. Juli 2001 11:32 schrieb Lars Gullik Bjønnes:
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You mean inside the tabular? Can't this be made with a minipage inside
a tabular cell (or a tabular inside a minipage)? Or have I
misunderstood you?
> | Imagine a user who wants to insert a footnote into a table. He
> | expects that it will be inserted as in normal text.
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> What is "inserted as in normal text"? At the bottom of the page? Not
> if the user comes from LaTeX.
Well, in my *humble* opinion (a user, which came from bad word
processors). But important is that the footnote is printed *at all*.
Currently it is *not*. I never used this in LaTeX, so I don't know what
a LaTeX user expects. But see next answer...
> | I don't think the latex
> | behaviour makes any sense at all.
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> that is one opinion.
Well, the LaTeX-FAQ from tug.org has a similar opinion:
"The standard LaTeX \footnote command doesn't work in tables; the table
traps the footnotes and they can't escape to the bottom of the page."
(http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?keyword=&question=123)
What is the sense of a footnote without the footnote text? That's the
latex behaviour which I meant.
So is there really a "footnote in table" standard? There are several
hints on the FAQ, Dekel's is mentioned, too.
> | IMHO there are two options:
> | -forbid footnotes in tables. the latex gurus know how to insert a
> | footnote with ERT/666 and add the packages to the preamble.
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> not the best option.
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> | - allow footnotes, but as *real* footnotes, not normal-latex-buggy
> | ones. This is what I would prefer from an ordinary user's view.
>
> buggy according to whom?
Buggy (better: not working) according to the LaTeX-FAQ
> | BTW: The latex gurus who might want this buggy latex footnote
> | without Dekel's preamble additions might use ERT/666
> | \footnote{blabla} inside tables.
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> and the difference form the regular InsetFootote is?
The difference is that InsetFootnote will insert Dekel's lines into the
preamble, while ERT will not. InsetFootnote will print the footnote
text while ERT will only print the symbol.
Thanks,
Jürgen
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