[XeTeX] Footnotes in longtable wihth column spec 'p'

[Fr. Michael Gilmary, mma]

On Feb 7 AD 2011, at 7:07 PM, Andy Black wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I'm using XeLaTeX with the longtable package, version 4.11.  The  
> documentation says that longtable takes special precautions, so  
> that footnotes may also be used in 'p' columns.  I'm having  
> problems, though, with this scenario.  While the footnote number in  
> the table has the correct number, the footnote number in the  
> footnote text at the bottom of the page uses a zero.
>
> A small sample that causes this is below.
>
> What am I doing wrong?




I don't use longtable ... but all I did was remove the bracketed  
numbers you have after the \footnote commands and the numbers came  
out fine. See your modified example below.




> \documentclass[12pt,twoside]{article}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \usepackage{longtable}
> \setmainfont{Times New Roman}
> \font\MainFont="Times New Roman" at 12pt
> \begin{document}
> \begin{MainFont}
> \vspace*{1in}
> {\centering{\LARGE{\textbf{Footnotes in tables with longtable and  
> XeLaTex\\}}}}
> \thispagestyle{plain}
> \vspace*{1in}
> \indent Here's a footnote in regular text.\footnote{{\leftskip0pt 
> \parindent1em
> Text in first footnote.}}\par{}
> \begin{longtable}[t]{@{}lp{.975in}@{}}
> blah&blue\footnote{{\leftskip0pt\parindent1em
> This is the second footnote, but its number is a zero!  Its column  
> spec uses a 'p'.}}\\
> green\footnote{\leftskip0pt\parindent1em Here is another footnote  
> in a table, but it's column spec does not use a 'p'.}&chartreuse\\
> \end{longtable}
> \end{MainFont}
> \end{document}



HTH.




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