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From: lwh@organ.cis.ohio-state.edu (Loyde W Hales)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: footnote in tabbing environment
Keywords: LaTeX, Footnote
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Date: 27 Jul 89 18:53:01 GMT
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In article <8983@thorin.cs.unc.edu> chu@shong.cs.unc.edu (Chu Heng) writes:
>
>     When I used footnot in a tabbing environment, I only got the footnote
>mark, while the text was missing. I used the simplest way(\footnote{..}) to
>make footnote. Should I use alternatives to do that? We got TeX V2.1 for
>Berkeley UNIX, if that helps.

The footnote  command is "fragile" in LaTeX.  That is, under circumstances
where it is removed (spacially) from the "area" under which it is working, it
will crash.  The footnote here is leaving the tabbing environment.

The suggested fix is to "protect" it.  Try \protect\footnote{...}.

This should work.


LL