Make footnote and fnpct compatible with color package?

Question

I know it is not recommended, but I have been trying to have footnotes in table environment. And the footnote package seems to me to be the easiest way to do it. Unfortunately, I also wanted to use multiple footnotes from the fnpct package, which is normaly incompatible with the footnote package (see fnpct doc p.21).

After some times, I found out that I could use both if I load the package xcolor (or color) first. Multiple footnotes are created inside tables and marks are placed at the bottom of the page.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{xcolor}

\usepackage{footnote} 
\makesavenoteenv{table}
\makesavenoteenv{tabular}

\usepackage[multiple]{fnpct}

\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{c} 
    tabular\footnote{1;2;3}.
\end{tabular}

\begin{table}[h]
    \begin{tabular}{c} 
        table\footnote{i;ii;iii}.
    \end{tabular}
\end{table}

\end{document}

The only issue is that, for a multiple footnote, only the last footnote is referenced correctly (in the example, only the footnotes 3 and 6 (iii) are properly referenced).

Is it possible to fix the references of a multiple footnote in this scenario ? Related to another issue (footnote package doesn't work correctly with hyperref, see this post)

Why loading xcolor package makes footnote and fnpct packages compatible ?

Answer 1

You can use fnpct with the tablefootnote package instead:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[multiple]{fnpct}
\usepackage{tablefootnote}

\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{c}
    tabular\tablefootnote{1;2;3}.
\end{tabular}

\begin{table}[h]
    \begin{tabular}{c}
        table\tablefootnote{i;ii;iii}.
    \end{tabular}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Alternatively, if that doesn't matter to you, the footnotehyper package supersedes footnote:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{footnotehyper}
\makesavenoteenv{table}
\makesavenoteenv{tabular}

\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{c}
    tabular.\footnote{footnote 1}
\end{tabular}

\begin{table}[h]
    \begin{tabular}{c}
        table.\footnote{footnote 2}
    \end{tabular}
\end{table}

\end{document}