[pdftex] issue with \cite and \footnote

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On 01.06.2014 10:56, mario chiari wrote:

> I have a \cite command within a \footnote, whose text is quite long. 
> It happens that the footnote is rendered across two pages.
> Book references are rendered as a hyperlink to the corresponding
> bibliographic entry.
> 
> In the final .pdf output, if a book reference happen to be rendered,  at
> the very last line of the footnote, crossing two pages (say pages 1 and
> 2), I have an issue.
> Issue is that hyperlink spans from the beggining of the reference (say
> within the footnote at the bottom of page 1), all along page 2, to the
> end of the book reference at the bottom of page 2. 
> 
> Is it a known issue?

Yes.

> Is there a way to fix?

Only cumbersome workarounds, e.g.:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/182769/16967

http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/179907/16967

Yours sincerely
  Heiko Oberdiek