I have a number of footnotes in my document, but because of the nature of one of my tables, i can't get the footnote to appear on the same page as the table (i cant reproduce a self contained example of this without pasting my whole document, sorry)
So as a workaround, I have done this:
In my text i have:
this is some text that needs a footnote$^3$
and then added a couple of lines at the bottom of my table that go:
\hfill\\
\cmidrule(lr){1-4}
\multicolumn{10}{l}{$^3$\footnotesize{this is the footnote text.}}
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
which produces the desired effect. My problem is, that if I insert another footnote in, then it will ruin my numbering.
is there some sort of \footnotecounter
or something that i can use to change my line above to:
this is some text that needs a footnote$^\footnotecounter$
and then after my "dummy" footnote, increment this counter by one so subsequent footnotes will start at 4?
\thefootnote
. To change numbering you can use:\stepcounter{footnote}
or\addtocounter{footnote}{2}
.