[XeTeX] tabular in footnote

[Daniel Greenhoe]

Thank you everyone for your help with this problem. I will regard it
as a bug. I hope that someday it can be fully resolved.

Dan

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Daniel Greenhoe <dgreenhoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Heiko,
>
> Thank you for your hard work on my behalf. I did try compiling your
> code; but it still seems to have the same problem as my original
> example (see attachments). Did I do something wrong?
>
> Dan
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Heiko Oberdiek
> <heiko.oberdiek at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 07:31:59AM +0800, Daniel Greenhoe wrote:
>>
>>> When I put a tabular in a footnote, the tabular often is extended
>>> outside the text area. Besides placing a newline directive after the
>>> tabular environment, is there anything I can do to prevent this
>>> behavior? That is, how can I best ensure that tabulars in a footnote
>>> get typeset completely within the text area? Here is an example:
>>>
>>> \documentclass[12pt]{book}
>>> \usepackage[xetex,a4paper,noheadfoot,nomarginpar,margin=20mm,showframe]{geometry}
>>> \begin{document}%
>>>   xyz\footnote{%
>>>     %\raisebox{2.5mm}{
>>>       \begin{tabular}[t]{|l|}
>>>        \hline
>>>         abc\\
>>>         def\\
>>>         ghj\\
>>>         klm\\
>>>         \hline
>>>       \end{tabular}%\\
>>>       %}%
>>>     }
>>>   xyz\footnote{%
>>>     %\raisebox{2.5mm}{
>>>       \begin{tabular}[t]{|l|}
>>>        \hline
>>>         abc\\
>>>         def\\
>>>         ghj\\
>>>         klm\\
>>>         \hline
>>>       \end{tabular}%\\
>>>       %}%
>>>     }
>>> \end{document}%
>>
>> I don't see a relation to XeTeX, thus the mailing list texhash
>> might be the better choice for this question.
>>
>> The following example addresses calculates the shift to align
>> the baseline of the footnote line with the first line of
>> the tabular. No time for looking at the problem with the overfull \vbox.
>>
>> \documentclass[12pt]{book}
>> \usepackage{array}
>> \usepackage[
>>  a4paper,noheadfoot,nomarginpar,margin=20mm,showframe
>> ]{geometry}
>> \usepackage{zref-savepos}
>>
>> \makeatletter
>> \newsavebox\tl at box
>> \newcount\c at tlcount
>> \setcounter{tlcount}{0}
>> \def\thetlcount{\the\c at tlcount}
>> \newenvironment*{tltabular}[1]{%
>>  \stepcounter{tlcount}%
>>  \begin{lrbox}{\tl at box}%
>>  \begin{tabular}[t]{|#1|}%
>>  \hline
>>  \zref at savepos
>>  \zref at labelbyprops{tl at b\thetlcount}{posy}%
>>  \ignorespaces
>> }{%
>>  \hline
>>  \end{tabular}%
>>  \end{lrbox}%
>>  \zref at refused{tl at a\thetlcount}%
>>  \zref at refused{tl at b\thetlcount}%
>>  \dimen@=\dimexpr
>>    \zposy{tl at a\thetlcount}sp-\zposy{tl at b\thetlcount}sp%
>>  \relax
>>  \raisebox{\dimen@}{%
>>    \zref at savepos
>>    \zref at labelbyprops{tl at a\thetlcount}{posy}%
>>    \box\tl at box
>>  }%
>> }
>>
>> \begin{document}%
>>  xyz\footnote{%
>>    \begin{tltabular}{l}
>>      abc\\
>>      def\\
>>      ghj\\
>>      klm\\
>>    \end{tltabular}%\\
>>  }
>>  xyz\footnote{%
>>    \begin{tltabular}{l}
>>      abc\\
>>      def\\
>>      ghj\\
>>      klm\\
>>    \end{tltabular}%\\
>>  }
>> \end{document}%
>>
>> Yours sincerely
>>  Heiko Oberdiek
>>
>>
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