[XeTeX] tabular in footnote

[Daniel Greenhoe]

Hello Heiko,

Thank you for your hard work on my behalf. I did try compiling your
code; but it still seems to have the same problem as my original
example (see attachments). Did I do something wrong?

Dan

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Heiko Oberdiek
<heiko.oberdiek at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 07:31:59AM +0800, Daniel Greenhoe wrote:
>
>> 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}%
>
> I don't see a relation to XeTeX, thus the mailing list texhash
> might be the better choice for this question.
>
> 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.
>
> \documentclass[12pt]{book}
> \usepackage{array}
> \usepackage[
>  a4paper,noheadfoot,nomarginpar,margin=20mm,showframe
> ]{geometry}
> \usepackage{zref-savepos}
>
> \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}%
>  \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
>  }%
> }
>
> \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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