Using sidewaystable enviroment with footnotetext

Question

my new problem si this code:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{rotating}

\begin{document}
    \begin{sidewaystable}[h!]
      \centering
       \setlength{\tabcolsep}{5pt}
       \begin{tabular}{|p{3cm}||p{4cm}|p{4cm}|p{4cm}|p{4cm}|}
         \hline
           EJ       & \textbf{471}   & \textbf{575}    & \textbf{671}  & \textbf{675}    \\
         \hline
           a        & 12  & dfg   & fg\footnotemark[1] &  ffd  \\ 
         \hline
           a        & 42  & fdg   & s\footnotemark[2] &  sdf  \\ 
         \hline           
      \end{tabular}
      \caption{Bla bla bla bla bla.}
      \label{A7660C1}
      \footnotetext[1]{ bla}
      \footnotetext[2]{ bla bla}
    \end{sidewaystable} 
\end{document}

I don't understand why, in the table are footnote references (\footnotemark) as numbers -> 1 and [2], but footnote text are referenced as letters -> [a] and [b] (\footnotetext). This problem is seen in the attached pdf document. I am running Miktex 2.9 (XeLaTeX).

Answer 1

You don't need to use \footnotemark. \footnote will work fine as you are in a minipage.

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{rotating}

\begin{document}
    \begin{sidewaystable}[h!]
    %\renewcommand\thempfootnote{\arabic{mpfootnote}}%if you want arabic numbers
      \centering
       \setlength{\tabcolsep}{5pt}
       \begin{tabular}{|p{3cm}||p{4cm}|p{4cm}|p{4cm}|p{4cm}|}
         \hline
           EJ       & \textbf{471}   & \textbf{575}    & \textbf{671}  & \textbf{675}    \\
         \hline
           a        & 12  & dfg   & fg\footnote{bla} &  ffd  \\
         \hline
           a        & 42  & fdg   & s\footnote{blablab}&  sdf  \\
         \hline
      \end{tabular}
      \caption{Bla bla bla bla bla.}
      \label{A7660C1}

    \end{sidewaystable}
\end{document}