[XeTeX] tabular in footnote

[Daniel Greenhoe]

Hi Zdenek,

As usual, thank you for all your hard work on my behalf. The
conclusion appears to be that there is no easy solution to the problem
(and it seems I am about the only person who has this problem).

If you do happen to come upon a solution some day, please feel free to
drop me a line. In the mean time I can maybe just tolerate the 2mm or
so overflow, or put a newline after the table.

Thank you again,
Dan

2011/12/4 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:
> Hi Dan,
> first, as Keith wrote, as a reader I would not expect a table in a
> footnote. If the table is important, why not to put it to the main
> text? And if it is not important, why it is there at all? If it is of
> less importance, it should rather appear in an apendix, not in a
> footnote.
>
> I am not such an expert. I tried to figure out how the page is
> completed but I do not fully understand it. What is important to know
> is that each box has 3 dimensions: height, depth and width. If tabular
> is set, the resulting box has zero height. You can see it in my
> example. You can also se a trick how I forced it to have nonzero
> height but preserving the sum of the height + depth. The boxes are
> treated differently depending whether they are inserted to the
> vertical or horizontal list.
>
> I am afraid that proper treatment of tables within footnotes will
> require delving into the TeX page breaking algorithm and detailed
> knowledge of LaTeX \output routine may also be needed. The LaTeX
> \output is about 40 pages of code and I have never studied these
> macros.
>
> 2011/12/4 Keith J. Schultz <keithjschultz at web.de>:
>> 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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> Zdeněk Wagner
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