[XeTeX] tabular in footnote

Andy Lin kiryen at gmail.com
Thu Dec 8 05:03:00 CET 2011 

Or... you could use context. I've never used context, but I hear good
things about it.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 22:59, Daniel Greenhoe <dgreenhoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/12/8 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
>> No, I do not agree. I can only agree that the LaTeX user
>> documentatioin is incomplete. ...
>> Without knowledge of the
>> modes you cannot understand why the table behaves differently in the
>> footnote. It is documented in the TeXbook.
>
> Then if that is the current state of the platform, as a LaTeX/XeLaTeX
> user it is not reasonable for me to make the demands on the system
> such as I originally sought (e.g. keeping text completely within the
> text area); that is,  absolute precision is beyond the reach of one
> who only codes at the LaTeX/XeLaTeX level, and is only within the
> reach of one who codes at the TeX level.
>
> This is not a complaint, it is only an observation. I actually have a
> copy of the TeX Book, I just need to open it.  ^___^
>
> Thank you for the clarification,
> Dan
>
>
> 2011/12/8 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
>> 2011/12/8 Daniel Greenhoe <dgreenhoe at gmail.com>:
>>> Hello Heiko,
>>> ...
>>> In my mind (and maybe in my mind only) if I code something (e.g. a
>>> tabular in a footnote) in accordance with documented syntax and then
>>> the result of that code violates a parameter (e.g. a lower text area
>>> boundary) defined in the same documentation, then that by definition
>>> is a bug. Secondly, if  a 32 line section of code is required to
>>> prevent my correctly coded (as defined by documented syntax) code from
>>> violating such a parameter, then such a violation is by definition a
>>> bug and the 32 lines of additional code is by definition a "patch".
>>>
>> No, I do not agree. I can only agree that the LaTeX user
>> documentatioin is incomplete. Consider the expression "my text". You
>> would certainly be disapointed if the word "text" were verticaly
>> aligned so that its baseline matched with the bottom of "y". That's
>> why boxes have height and depth and are aligned to baselines, not to
>> bottom. The truth is that the documentation of tabular is incomplete.
>> It does not say that it has zero width and the whole table extends
>> below baseline. Thus in your original sample file you aske LaTeX to
>> put the table below the baseline and LaTeX did exactly what you asked
>> for. Incomplete documentation is unfortunately a feature of LaTeX.
>> Normal users do not know that \vspace is expanded to \vskip in the
>> vertical mode but to \vadjust{...} in the horizontal mode and the
>> starred variant is esentially \vglue. I am afraid that the LaTeX
>> documentation does not even mention the 5 modes so that the vertical
>> and horizontal modes may be strange for you. Without knowledge of the
>> modes you cannot understand why the table behaves differently in the
>> footnote. It is documented in the TeXbook.
>>
>>> Having said that, let me make these additional comments:
>>>  1. I am embarrassed by my own lack of knowledge with respect to TeX coding.
>>>  2. I realize that I take a lot from this email list but contribute
>>> nothing or next to nothing
>>>  3. I very much appreciate all the help that I have and do receive
>>> from this mailing list
>>>  4. I know that beggars can't be choosers.
>>>  5. TeX and it's derivatives has to be one of the greatest
>>> developments of all time --- like unto the Gutenberg Press --- many
>>> many thanks to everyone who has and continues to work so hard to
>>> develop it.
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Heiko Oberdiek
>>> <heiko.oberdiek at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 06:30:39AM +0800, Daniel Greenhoe wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Heiko Oberdiek
>>>>> <heiko.oberdiek at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>> > You have to compile twice at least.
>>>>>
>>>>> I compiled at least 8 times using "xelatex Heiko.tex". I still get the
>>>>> same error: the text extends below the text area (see attachment). You
>>>>> don't get this result on your system?
>>>>
>>>> And I had written:
>>>>
>>>> | 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.
>>>>
>>>> I have seen two problems with your example and one of them solved,
>>>> the other remained unsolved. No more, no less.
>>>>
>>>> Taking more time, I see now, that the overfull \vbox is caused
>>>> by something different: The header is set to zero (see options
>>>> for geometry), but the page number is printed causing the
>>>> overfull \vbox. Changing the options of geometry or \pagestyle{empty}
>>>> solves the problem.
>>>>
>>>> The exceeding part of the second footnote text is correct behaviour:
>>>> TeX tries to align the top and bottom lines of a page in order to
>>>> get the baselines at the same position:
>>>> * At the top vertical space is added up to \topskip unless
>>>>  the height of the first element is larger than \topskip.
>>>> * At the bottom the bottom element might have a depth up to
>>>>  \maxdepth. The default for \maxdepth with \documentclass[12pt]{book}
>>>>  is .5\topskip = 8pt. \maxdepth=0pt doesn't allow the bottom element
>>>>  to exceed the textarea. Aligning the last line of the tabular with the
>>>>  bottom of the textarea is much more tricky.
>>>>
>>>>  The following assumes that the last line of the tabular contains
>>>>  normal text without large depths:
>>>>
>>>> \documentclass[12pt]{book}
>>>> \usepackage{array}
>>>> \usepackage[
>>>>  a4paper,noheadfoot,nomarginpar,margin=20mm,showframe
>>>> ]{geometry}
>>>> \usepackage{zref-savepos}
>>>> \pagestyle{empty}
>>>>
>>>> %\maxdepth=0pt
>>>>
>>>> \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}%
>>>>  \xdef\g at dp@arstrutbox{%
>>>>    \the\dimexpr\dp\@arstrutbox+\arrayrulewidth
>>>>  }%
>>>>  \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
>>>>  }\\*[-\g at dp@arstrutbox]%
>>>>  \hbox{\vrule width 0pt depth\g at dp@arstrutbox}%
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> \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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>> Zdeněk Wagner
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>> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
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