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From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
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Subject: Re: latex, footnotes, minipage and tabular
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Date: 23 Feb 91 04:23:42 GMT
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You folks must not be reading my posts...

In article <1991Feb20.201841.1@euler.claremont.edu>, dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) writes:
> In article <5766@husc6.harvard.edu>, kochhar@harvard.harvard.EDU (Sandeep) writes:
>> I have a tabular environement within a minipage.  When I use
>> \footnote with that tabular environement, latex generates alphabetic
>> subscripts for the footnotes (a, b, ...).  However, if within
>> the same tabular, I use \footnotemark, I get numerical subscripts (1, 2, ...).
  
>> Is there a way to generate alphabetic subscripts using \footnotemark within
>> the tabular as above.
  
>> (I need it 'cos I'm trying to reference the same footnote at various
>> entries in the table.)
 
> Here is my recommendation:
 
> \newenvironment{aroundtbl}{\begin{flushleft}\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}
>    \begin{center}}{\end{center}\end{minipage}\end{flushleft}}
> \newcommand{\fnref}[1]{\footnotemark[\ref{#1}]}
> ...
 
> \begin{aroundtbl}
> \begin{tabular}{lll}
> Some text\footnote{The first occurrence of this footnote\label{first}}&
>    More text&Even more text\fnref{first}\\
> Additional text\footnote{A different footnote\label{different}}&
>    More text\fnref{first}&And more text\fnref{different}
> \end{tabular}
> \end{aroundtbl}

The definition of \fnref above will not work. I forgot that
\footnotemark's optional argument must be a number (it generates
the appropriate footnote mark based on that number).

A working definition would be:
\newcommand{\fnref}[1]{\hbox{$^{\ref{#1}$}

If you want to be a little more bullet-proof, the following
definition should appear in a style option or be surrounded by
\makeatletter .. \makeatother

\def\fnref[1]{\def\@thefnmark{\ref{#1}}\@makefnmark}

which will track the document style's printing of footnote
markers (assuming the style is defined correctly.

-dh

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