{footnotes} is about typesetting footnotes. Popular packages are {footmisc}, {footnote}, and {bigfoot}.
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Notes overflowing from marginpar to footer
In this document, from page 12 and following, the notes from the marginpar are overflowing in the footer of each page.
How can this be achieved in LaTeX?
ConTeXT/LuaTeX based solutions are ...
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Symbols instead of numbers as footnote markers
How can I make LaTeX use symbols (*, †, ‡, and so on) instead of numbers to mark footnotes? (The numbers are confusing because I use superscripted numbers for citations.)
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Using \footnote in a figure's \caption
Maybe this is an easy one, but I struggled with this now too long :)
I want to have a footnote in a caption of a figure, see the example.
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\caption{a figure ...
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Footnote backreference with hyperref
This question led to a new package:
footnotebackref
I'm using hyperref to have footnote marks link to the footnote proper and I'd like to have some sort of "backreferences" from the footnote ...
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Is a three-column footnote layout possible?
I'm contemplating the idea of a document layout where citations are author-year-style, but given as footnotes. That is, those notes would be (for the most part) very short, which is a bad match for ...
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Footnotes in tables?
I would like to have footnotes in tables, but the \footnote command does not work inside a table environment. Googling one finds that this is a frequently asked question, at least in the UK. That ...
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Multiple footnotes at one point
I'm trying to create multiple footnotes referencing from one point, that look like this:
lorem1,2
Searching for "multiple footnotes" shows up almost exclusively solutions for multiple references ...
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Placing footnotes or endnotes at the end of the current paragraph
This question led to a new package:
parnotes
How can I get footnote or endnote text to appear right after the paragraph in which it was mentioned?
Update:
As my question lacks sufficient ...
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Multiple references to the same footnote with hyperref support - is there a better solution?
According to the Latex wikibook the workaround for having multiple references to the same footnote with hyperref support is this:
\footnote{This is the ...
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Tables below footnotes, is this a good output routine algorithm or a bug?
Consider the minimal code below, which produces two different layouts depending on the table position marks.
The first layout uses
\begin{table}
which results in the table ending below the ...
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Footnote to an item in a description environment
It seems like it's not possible to put footnote inside a description list item.
For example in the following code first footnote appears at the bottom of the page, but the second - doesn't:
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How to obtain verbatim text in a footnote?
I want to employ a \verb command in a footnote. But, when I run pdflatex on
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
I want this.\footnote{\verb|But, it does not work!|}
\end{document}
I get ...
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Is there a reliable footnote command?
The command \footnote is really annoying me. I have to use hacks to use it in section headings, epigraphs, tables, minipages and whatnot.
Can it be fixed? Has someone already implemented a footnote ...
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Is there a way to automatically change kerning between commas/full stops and footnote marks?
This question led to a new package:
fnpct
Following up on my question on the kerning of footnote marks after punctuation marks, I'd like to know if there is a way to achieve the kerning of ...
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Footnote without a marker
I am new to LaTeX. I am trying to write a paper using latex. I want a footnote about the funding source of my work in the first page without marker.
I tried below approaches:
\footnotetext{text ...
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Continuous footnote numbering
I would like footnote numbering to continue over pages and chapters. In my document it's reset every chapter. I'm using the report documentclass.
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How to reset footnote counter in each column of a two-column document?
Footnote counters can be reset in each page by using either zref-perpage or perpage packages but how do you reset footnote counter in each column of a two column documents?
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Reference different places to the same footnote
For example, I want to make footnotes both at Sentence 1 and Sentence 2 (which are on the same page) to the same footnote. Wikipedia's "References" have this effect.
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Compressing consecutive footnote marks
This question led to a new package:
footnoterange
I have a series of consecutively numbered footnotes that appear as (1,2,...,N). I would like these to be condensed to a hyphenated series ...
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Nested footnotes
The footception post (Footception: Footnote within a footnote within a footnote) describes how to recursively footnote. I am trying to make a nested footnote that is placed in the same footnote ...
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Footnote to a footnote
How can I make a footnote to a footnote? E.g.,
Playfair's axiom\footnote{so called in honor of mathematician John Playfair, etc, etc., but was actually discovered by Proclus\footnote{Greek ...
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Keep all footnotes on the according page
Is there a way to keep all footnotes on the page where they belong to? I have several (20-30) footnotes per page (some short, some stretch over multiple lines). Sometimes latex places the last one or ...
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footnote counter, would like to restart from '1' each page
I would like the footnote counter to automatically restart from '1' for each page of my document.
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How to create “local” footnotes in block quotes?
I have a block quote, which contains a footnote - but I don't want to put that at the end of the page, but rather at the end of the quote. Like so:
Does footnote command allow this kind of ...
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Adjust box around hyperref footnote links
Is it possible to adjust the size of the box around the footnote links produced by hyperref? Specifically, I would like to move the base of the box closer to the base of the object inside.
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Footception: Footnote within a footnote within a footnote
Inspired by the question Footnote to a footnote (where it was asked if one could have a footnote reference in a footnote), I'm asking something a bit more complex. Before I ask though, let me prefence ...
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Footnote numbers in index (e.g., 23n3)
I'm currently weighing indexing options for a book-length project. One of the more surprising hurdles is that there doesn't seem to be a way to create an index (in my case, several indices) that ...
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Placing text and footnotes on separate pages
How can I place the main text of a document on only verso (left) pages and the footnotes on recto (right) pages (or vice versa)?
Update:
The expected appearance is not unlike moving the whole ...
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Can I get a normal footnote in a minipage environement in LaTeX? How?
I need to use a minipage environment and I need a footnote in that minipage. I want the footnote to be numbered in the normal footnote sequence and to occur together with the rest of the footnotes in ...
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How to set superscript footnote mark in the text body but normalsized in the foot?
I want the footnote mark to be superscripted in the text body (e.g. Footnote mark²), but normalsize in the foot, to be shown like:
________________
2. Some footnote text
Also, it would be nice if ...
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Multiple \thanks that refer to same text
I'd like to have three authors that use the same footnote for their \thanks identifier (they are at the same university, and don't need separate affiliation notes). I've read one of the solutions ...
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Two types of footnotes
Sorry for asking so much questions. And I think this one is pretty easy I just don't know how.
I would like to use two types of footnotes in my document. The regular \footnote using the arabic ...
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paragraphed footnote style with bigfoot
I need paragraphed footnotes precisely as manyfoot offers them, but also some of bigfoot's other features (mainly "natural" order of the notes).
As bigfoot is described as "a drop-in replacement of ...
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Why is my footnote “glued” to the text?
This is the document:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[top=3in, bottom=3in, left=3in, right=3in]{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\interlinepenalty=10000
\begin{document}
This is first short ...
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How to properly typeset footnotes/superscripts after punctuation marks?
I find the spacing of footnote marks after punctuation marks quite unsatisfactory, especially with sans serif fonts and compared to the spacing after letters. Example follows:
I came up with a ...
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How display the href link in the footnote?
My document has several \href that I would like to be shown on the footnote. How can I do it?
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Inserting space after the number in footnotes
Text of Footnotes are very close to their numbers. How can I make 2mm space after all footnote numbers (or 2mm before every footnote text)?
\documentclass[draft,12pt,a4paper]{article}
...
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Getting those %#!^& signs in the footnote!
This is basically an expanded version of part of Control command arguments . The original questioner there wants to redefine \href so that all the links end up in foonotes (rather than in the main ...
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Footnote number in braces / parentheses
I have written my dissertation with LaTeX, but my teacher has suggested to put the number of footnotes in braces / parentheses. I thought it would be easy, but I haven't found the answer anywhere!
I ...
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How can I let a footnote continue on the next page?
I have a rather long footnote which breaks a listing in two parts, unnecessarily. Since the listing is more important then the footnote I'd rather lake to have the footnote split.
Can I customize ...
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Can I detect whether a footnote has been split?
Title sez it all: Can I detect, hopefully by inspecting \box\footins, whether a footnote has been split at page-breaking?
I found the package fnbreak but it uses labels, which is much too delayed for ...
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Can Footnotes reside in another file?
I want to know if is there a possibility/method/package, by which I can uniquely label all footnote positions in book.tex. And another file, footnote.tex, containing the footnotes
and matching labels, ...
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Using \thanks and \footnote without without numbering/mark and line
I want to use \thanks and \footnote without any numbering/mark with my title. Is there a way to do it?
I use:
\documentclass[letterpaper,twocolumn,10pt]{article}
after Alan Munn's answer it works ...
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Adding notes to Table of Contents
How could I add a note ... or a footnote at the beginning of the Table of Contents, something like 'Chapters with * can be skipped on a first reading'...?
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Complicated footnote within longtable environment
I have a footnote that explains color coding within a complicated longtable. I would like this footnote to appear on all pages of the longtable. However, the way I have it now, the footnote itself is ...
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Alternative symbol sets for footnote marks
The footmisc package describes 3 additional systems in which one can apply numbering to footnotes in a paper:
bringhurst: ∗, †, ‡, §, ||, ¶.
chicago: ∗, †, ‡, §, ||, #.
wiley: ∗, ∗∗, †, ...
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Footnote runs onto second page
I have a footnote that begins on one page but the text runs over onto the footnote section of the page afterwards. Any way to fix this? I'm using footmisc and the oneside book class.
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Layout of multiple lines footnotes
I have a question about footnotes with LaTeX:
I would like the multi-lines footnotes to look like:
1 This is the first line of the very, very long footnote
and this is the second line of the ...
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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 ...
