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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: footnote in table and figure, again
Keywords: footnoting, table, figure
Message-ID: <3800@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 17 Sep 90 10:57:43 GMT
References: <37203@ut-emx>
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Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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In-reply-to: young@emx.utexas.edu (Young U. Ryu)

In article <37203@ut-emx>, young@emx (Young U. Ryu) writes:
 |
 |In order to remove the footnote ruke,
 |I redefined \footnoterule. It was OK.
 |But I could not adjust vspace before the footnote and
 |left indent before the footnote mark.

OK, it wasn't clear from you first question that THAT was the problem.

1. Vertical space is specified in the latex style files as
\skip\@mpfootins. You can easily compensate for that by redefining 

\renewcommand {\footnoterule} {\unskip}

Note that this is a hack. The rules are that \footnoterule should occupy
zero vertical space. But that doesn't seem to matter in a minipage. In a
normal page it would confuse the output routine.

The horizontal space is hardwired in the style file, e.g. in article.sty:


\long\def\@makefntext#1{\parindent 1em\noindent 
 \hbox to 1.8em{\hss$^{\@thefnmark}$}#1}
          ^^^^^
change this to your taste or leave it out completely. This is my new try:


\documentstyle{article}
\begin{document}
    \begin{minipage}{7cm}
      \makeatletter
      \long\def\@makefntext#1{\noindent $^{\@thefnmark}$#1}
      \makeatother
      \renewcommand {\footnoterule} {\unskip}
      \begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
        \hline
        AAAAA & BBBBB\footnote{this is a footnote} & CCCC \\ \hline
        DDDDD & EEEEE & FFFFF \\ \hline
      \end{tabular}
    \end{minipage}
\end{document}
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