{footnotes} is about typesetting footnotes. Popular packages are {footmisc}, {footnote}, and {bigfoot}.
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Is there a distinct command for \widowpenalty and \clubpenalty in footnotes?
I have found that setting \widowpenalty=10000\clubpenalty=10000 in the main document has not prevented widows and clubs from appearing occasionally in footnotes in a long and complex document I am ...
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Difference between \footcite and \cite in BibLaTeX
Since recently, I am having some trouble with the short/ibidem and full citations in BibLaTeX. When I use a \cite command inside a footnote, it behaves differently than \footcite: it seems each keeps ...
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How can I make comments and text appear side-by-side?
I need your help. I'm going to write philological commentary on Cicero's speech in XeLaTeX, but I don't know how to make a combination of text and commentary (look below for examples). Is it possible ...
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Nested footnotes disrupts comma delineation of footnotes
A solution that resolves LaTeX's inability to properly number nested footnotes has the side effect of abolishing comma delination of sequential footnotes (a feature provided by the footmisc package), ...
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Biblatex and citation reset between chapters
I have a feeling that there is an obvious answer to this question that I'm somehow managing to miss. However, I've tried most of the commands in the biblatex documentation and I still can't figure it ...
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How to break URLs when footnotes are on same line?
Question Footnotes on the same line revealed that it is a good idea to use \usepackage[para]{footmisc}. However, this does not seem to work with URLs:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
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How to reduce the space between two footnotes, making them seem more like two paragraphs?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[doublespacing]{setspace}
%\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
\usepackage[b5paper]{geometry}
\begin{document}
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footnote in Math Environment
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amstext, amsmath}
\usepackage{chemarrow}
\begin{document}
\let\rightarrow\chemarrow
Begin $\xrightarrow[\text{Text below the arrow}\footnote{this is ...
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biblatex : which style for a footnote once then nothing?
Ok sorry for this not so clear title. I'm having trouble to express & find what seems so simple :s
I'm biblatex and I would like to know which citation style/bibliographical style and/or option I ...
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single column footnote in multicols environment?
I use the multicols environment (multicol package).
I have two columns.
If I simply use \footnote{the footnote text, which is quite long}
the footnote behaves as if there was just one big column (as ...
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How to have both symbolic footnote (counters reset per page) and numeric footnote (numbering never resets) threads on top of each other?
I would like two footnote threads:
one that uses traditional American footnote symbols (such as *†‡§¶‖) and whose counter is reset every page
one that uses continuous (Arabic numeral) numbering ...
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\paragraphfootnotes with text colour
I am having some trouble with my footnotes becoming coloured in certain situations. In particular, I am wanting to use memoir's \paragraphfootnotes, but all the footnotes for a page become coloured if ...
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Reproducing a spacious layout of verse annotation
LaTeX footnote and pagination routines by default allow long or multiple footnotes for a given page to spill-over to following page(s) of the text. But the interaction of the pagination and notes ...
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Footnote in math mode
How can I do to insert a footnote into a math mode. I try with this (and other needed packages)
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{ccaption}
And i.e if I try
\begin{eqnarray}
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Caption and footnote width with ctable
I am using ctable and I have a table with footnotes. Since the table is narrow, the caption text is squeezed in the table width, which looks odd. I can use mincapwidth to specify a minimum width for ...
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Changing href's to footnotes
Here is exactly what I am trying to do. I have a file with many commands of the form \href{a}{b} for strings a and b. I would like to redefine \href so that it executes the following: ...
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Different formatting of footnote mark in text and in footnote
I want that my footnotes have numbers like this:
in the text : like this : (7) instead of just 7.
in the bottom of the page (where the note text is) : like this : 7. This is my note... blah...
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Extending the line drawn above footnotes
By default the line drawn where the footer begins is small in size. How can I make it bigger and make it match with the document text area size?
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How can I get two sequences of “footnotes” in one LaTeX document, one as footnotes, the other as endnotes?
I want to have two distinct sequences of "footnotes" in a single text, one as footnotes, the other as endnotes. Can this be accomplished in LaTeX? If so, how?
In case it isn't clear what I mean, ...
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Change footnote “numbering” temporarily
I would like to change my footnote "numbering" style temporally to letters (a,b,c ...) the default numbering beeing numbers (1,2,3 ...).
This is needed only for specific paragraph, so I can't use the ...
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beamer: footnote text collides with navigation symbols
Footnotes in presentations are "usually not a good idea" (beamer manual, p. 130). Suppose, however, I have a valid reason to use the \footnote command in a beamer document (e.g., for printing a full ...
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How do I add a blank line between the footnote line and the footnotes?
Between the footnote line and the first footnote on that page, I need to add a double-space. I've tried using the \ command, but it adds a space after the number. Does anyone know a way for me to do ...
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Warning with footnotes: “name{Hfootnote.xx} has been referenced but does not exist”
First, some general details about my document: I'm using the scrbook class and the hyperref package. The document is split up into different source files (though this fact should not matter in this ...
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Detect space before a footnote
I'm in the middle of proofreading TeX source for a book, and have found a couple of places where a stray space has slipped through before a footnote mark. Is there any automated way of scanning TeX ...
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Sidenote formatting
I want to have sidenotes (alternate footnotes) in the margin. I found this code on the Latex Community website.
\newcommand{\sidenote}[1]{%
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How to place a footnote inside a float environment
How can one declare a footnote within a float environment, such that it appears on the same page with the float (regularly on the page, not inside the float)? Is there any trick or additional package ...
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Footnote in align enviroment
It appears that one is not supposed to use \footnote in math mode as per this appropriately named question: Footnote in math mode. However, it appears that I can get it to work without having to ...
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Putting marks for split footnotes
Say, that you have a footnote which is printed in page 1 and 2. How can you put a mark, say $\rightarrow$ at the end of the footnote text in page 1 and at the start of the footnote text on page 2, ...
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Footnotes disappear when using overlays in beamer
I use footnotes for citations in combination with the beamer package. I adapted the code from this question and everything works quice nicely - except when using overlays. Then the footnotes only show ...
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biblatex: Enhancing \autocite in case of would-be nested footnotes
This question led to a new feature in a package:
biblatex
biblatex provides high-level citation commands like \autocite that allow "global switching from inline citations to citations given in ...
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How to renumber and redisplay additional references to a previous footnote if the previous appearance was several pages prior in ConTeXt?
I am using \setnotetext[footnote][0001]{This is a footnote.} to set a footnote's text and \note[footnote][0001] to create multiple references to it. When the footnote's first appearance, and later ...
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How to write a footnnote attached to the author in a LaTeX paper?
I want to attach a footnote to each author of a paper and write that their research was supported by different grants. How do I do that? Simply \footnote after each author does not work!
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Numbering a group of footnotes differently
Consider you have two group of footnotes: first group are normal footnotes and other one are a group of related notes.
How can number second group with different style? (for example: 1,2,3,... and ...
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Why does LaTeX (contrarily to TeX) not allow catcode changes in footnotes?
In Plain TeX the following compiles with no error
Hello\footnote*{\tt\catcode92=12 \world}!
\bye
The analog in LaTeX
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Hello\footnote{\ttfamily\catcode92=12 ...
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How to reset endnotes counter at parts and chapters
I have a document (book class, see condensed working-example below) in the book class, in which I've got some endnotes (extra notes that get saved until the end of the document as opposed to printed ...
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How to achieve a multi-column layout for footnotes?
How can you achieve a multi-column layout for footnotes?
I have one page filled only with a rotated table (landscape layout, the sidewaystable environment). The table is annotated by a lot of ...
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Minipage footnote is inside tikZ node
I have a minipage, and inside of it I have a footnote and a tikZ picture. Now my problem is, that the footnote text goes inside the last node of my tikZ picture. That is not what I want – and it's ...
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How can I replace footnotes for non-floating marginal notes?
How can I replace footnotes for non-floating marginal notes?
I have tried to replace my footnotes for sidenotes with footmisc package's side option, but they continue to be floats, like every ...
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Footnote in moderncv
I'm using the moderncv template and I want to add a footnote inside the last part of the \cventry{}{}{}{}{}{} tag, something like this:
\cventry{Aug 2008}{Title}{}{}{}{text text text ...
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footnotes - on the bottom except on last page of chapter
My school requires that dissertations follow a set of sometimes odd formatting requirements. We have a latex class file which does a reasonable job at bringing documents into compliance with their ...
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footmisc package - remove star from footnote symbols
I'm using footmisc package for handling footnotes. I want to remove the star (*) from the symbol list?
I tried all the combination of
\DefineFNsymbols*{}{}
and
\setfnsymbol{}
except the correct ...
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Can I write footnotes as I do cite references? [duplicate]
Is there a package out there that will allow me to write my footnotes not inline, but in separate file, and them simply refer to their keys?
E.g., instead of writing this:
My main text ...
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Formatting footnotes as a table (not footnotes for tables!)
Is there some way a person could format footnotes as a table?
What I'm trying to do is put translations and transliterations from English to Japanese in footnotes on my pages in the form
WORD ...
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microtype package (v.2.5 beta 06) and footnote protrusion
According to section 6 of microtype manual (v.2.5 from 2011/02/07, p. 23) the code below should set custom protrusion for footnote numbers. However, when \microtypecontext command is set, it cancels ...
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Footnote in block statement
I have a presentation to make, and in this I present a quote in a block, like this:
\begin{block}{Quote headline}
Some truly great words some man made before me.
\end{block}\footnote{And this is ...
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Copyright disclaimer as a footnote at bottom of first page
I am writing a scientific paper and I am having difficulty adding a "copyright" footer on the first page. I am currently having a paper which looks like this (from howtotex.com):
(Link to ...
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What is the correct syntax for subfootnote?
After upgrading from ConTeXt stable to beta, any code containing subfootnote does not compile. E.g.:
\definestructureconversionset [footnote] [numbers, Characters] [numbers]
\setupenumerations ...
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Revtex - using math in footnote
How one can use mathematics in footnote using ReVteX?
I have a particular problem with \rangle
Minimal Example:
\documentclass[aps,amsmath,amssymb, prl]{revtex4-1}
\begin{document}
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Punctuation spacing after long exponents
When typesetting equations with long exponents or high-numbered footnotes right before punctuation marks, the result is a rather awkward large space between the last letter and the punctuation mark:
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Labeling a Footnotemark
Is there a way to label a \footnotemark instance (without redefining the \footnotemark macro)? Labeling the \footnotemark has no effect (it labels whatever environment the command is invoked from) and ...
