[XeTeX] tabular in footnote

[Daniel Greenhoe]

Hi Keith,

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Keith J. Schultz <keithjschultz at web.de> wrote:
> Most writers show poor style by stuffing all kinds of information in the footnote

Thank you for your honest feedback. The purpose of the tabular
footnotes is for citation information. I like verbose citations; I do
not like seeing a reference with just a [1] and then I have to fish
around in the nether regions of the book to get any clue as to what
reference it refers to. Rather for each, say, theorem, I like to put
on the same page (or close to the same page) as where the theorem
occurs
  1. multiple references for that one theorem (recent and old/original
if possible)
  2. reference information that is verbose enough to contain an
author, a title, and a year (normally with additional info available
in the Bibliography)

I realize this style is not standard in the book industry, but I like
it. And I think not having it this way may in part be a vestige of
out-dated technology (e.g. typesetting with a simple typewriter).

Thus, I often have several lines (one line per reference) for a single
footnote. And I implement this using a tabular environment. I think
tabular environments are a good mechanism for aligning material
neatly.

Dan


I like to put verbose citations (one line of reference info) for each
reference,

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Keith J. Schultz <keithjschultz at web.de> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> Though, you problem is interesting, but I can believe you have this
> problem.
>
> You do realize that a footnote in general is not intend to contain this kind of
> information. Even though it may be possible in TeX, et al.
>
> Most writers show poor style by stuffing all kinds of information in the footnote
> because they do not take the time to properly integrate what the have to say into the main
> text.
>
> But, you can do whatever you want.
>
> regards
>        Keith.
>
> Am 04.12.2011 um 00:31 schrieb Daniel Greenhoe:
>
>> 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}%
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>> Dan
>> <foottbl.tex><foottbl.pdf>
>>
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