> Hello, Charles. > > Thanks for the reply. > > I may not understand what you propose (I realize that I probably > wasn't > too clear in my original message, either: I'm not putting a footnote IN > the > table (nor in a figure caption, etc.), but just somewhere else on the page > so that both it and the table end up on the same page after LaTeX does its > magic. Maybe that's not what you inferred, but I realize that my original > message might have implied that. I've seen some messages recently where > people have tried this, and have had some bad results. > > So, what I've just tried is the following: > *Insert a minipage into my LyX document. In this, insert the floating > table. > *Leave the footnote where it is ( a different part of the text, not in the > table contruct, nor in its caption). > > Is this what you mean? I think your message might have been meant for a > table with some sort of footnote inside it (which isn't what I have). If I > do the table-in-a-minipage thing, LaTeX complains with an error message > like > "LaTeX Error: Not in outer par mode," and "Undefined control sequence," > and > "Missing number, treated as zero." As is almost always the case, I can't > make much of the errors, especially when such a minor change has been made > (moving the float to within a minipage). > > I'll rephrase my original question just for clarity's sake: Is it > possible to have a table float to the bottom of the page, but still be on > top of any footnotes (which have nothing to do with the table)? > > Also, if I should post this into a TeX group, please tell me. This > doesn't seem to be a LyX-specific problem. >
I guess that your float is too big for a page and that makes LaTeX going amok and placing it in a strange place. You should post a small example with the problematic page. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
