[XeTeX] Missing char, missing footnote

[Zdenek Wagner]

2011/10/12 Tobias Schoel <liesdiedatei at googlemail.com>:
> Am 11.10.2011 23:19, schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
>>
>> 2011/10/11 Tobias Schoel<liesdiedatei at googlemail.com>:
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 11.10.2011 21:20, schrieb Karljurgen Feuerherm:
>>>>
>>>> Hello Ross,
>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at  3:15 PM, in message
>>>>
>>>>>> (2) The footnote has vanished. I suppose that means footnotes aren't
>>>>
>>>> legal
>>>>>
>>>>> in tables of this type... Can someone suggest a solution to this?
>>>>>
>>>>> The footnote occurs within a floating table. Which page should it go
>>>>
>>>> onto?
>>>>>
>>>>> Put the {tabular} into a {minipage}, then the footnote will be tied
>>>>
>>>> to that.
>>>>
>>>> Ok--will try that.
>>>>
>>>>> Also, why declare the {table} inside the {enumerate} list, when you
>>>>
>>>> know
>>>>>
>>>>> that it will float to elsewhere? It probably works OK, but it makes
>>>>
>>>> your
>>>>>
>>>>> LaTeX source harder to read and thus complicates any later editing
>>>>
>>>> that you
>>>>>
>>>>> may need to do.
>>>>
>>>> Well--ideally I don't really want it to float, I want it *right there*.
>>>> I'm still learning the finer points of these things, but I see your
>>>> point :)
>>>
>>> If you don't want it to float, don't use a floating environment like
>>> \begin{table}. Just leave it out. (And think twice about centering the
>>> tabular.)
>>>
>> Without floating environment \caption will not work. There are tricks
>> how to do it but imagine what happens if there is no space for the
>> whole table on the page. You will have to invent some additional text
>> above the itemization list in order to put a few items and the table
>> to the next page. Just one item plus the table would look very ugly.
>> Do you really want to do that? I would rather think a bit more about
>> the document structure.
>
> I don't know, what functionality of captions you need. For only text below
> (or above) the tabular, there are simple methods such as multicolumn or a
> surrounding tabular or a minipage / parbox.
>
> For more specific functionality you should really think about what the
> purpose and structure of this table in this document are. Maybe, letting it
> flow is better suited.
>
The purpose of \caption is not only to typeset the caption but also
display the number, add the caption to the list of tables (figures)
and allow for cross references. It is defined in the floating
environments only. If you want to have this functionality outside
floating environments, you must cheat LaTeX. Vafa wrote the solution.

> Generally speaking: before forcing LaTeX to do something, it doesn't
> naturally support, think about adapting to LaTeX's way.
>
>
>>
>>> ciao
>>>
>>> Toscho
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> K
>>>>
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