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I hit a situation where it appears like latex has a passion for putting footnotes together, which causes it even to move a footnote away from the page on which it is referenced.

[EDIT: As Ulrike Fischer pointed out in the comments, latex has no such mechanism built-in. The behavior thus must be a symptom of some other issue.]

To be precise, I have two pages as follows:

  • Page 1
    • Figure 1
    • Footnote 1 is defined
  • Page 2
    • Figure 2
    • Footnote 2 is defined
    • Footnote 3 is defined

Now instead of putting Footnote 1 on Page 1, latex puts Footnote 1 on Page 2, together with Footnote 2 and 3. There would be enough space on Page 1 to fit Footnote 1. If I make the page bigger using \enlargethispage, nothing happens for a while until it moves all three footnotes on Page 1.

I'm not providing a MWE because I think the issue is quite specialized and hard to reproduce.

Has anyone else experienced this behavior? What did you do against that? Is there a penalty or so I can set for moving footnotes to another page?

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    Your claim is wrong: nothing in latex tries to keep footnotes together. Your code is doing something curious and you should show an example.
    – Ulrike Fischer
    Aug 19, 2018 at 16:02
  • @UlrikeFischer, ok, thanks for the information. I edited my question to include this.
    – srs
    Aug 19, 2018 at 16:28
  • really you should provide an example it is almost impossible to guess what is happening, for example are page 1 or page 2 float pages? (latex can not place footnptes on float pages by default)
    – David Carlisle
    Aug 19, 2018 at 16:30
  • Footnotes inside floats are tricky at best, since you really don't know what page the float will wind up on. See tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29916/…
    – John Kormylo
    Aug 20, 2018 at 4:12

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I fixed it. The problem was that the figure on Page 2 contained \tablefootnote commands. I'm not sure how the tablefootnote package works, but there does seem to be some interaction with previously placed footnotes.

I worked around this issue by replacing the \tablefootnote command by a \footnotemark-\footnotetext pair and moving the \footnotetext far enough down.

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