parcolumns: no footnotes are produced

Question

The footnote number appears in the printed text but I cannot see any footnote when using the parcolumns environment:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{parcolumns}
\usepackage[paperheight=9cm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\begin{parcolumns}{2}
\colchunk[1]{
Foo
}
\colchunk[2]{
Bar\footnote{Baz}
}
\end{parcolumns}
\end{document}

Is there any workaround to solve this problem?

Answer 1

The parcolumns documentation (section 4) says:

Footnotes are not set in columns.

Here's a way to circumvent this. Note that it only works if you only have one footnote per \colchunk. Otherwise, you’ll have to fiddle with counters; Reference different places to the same footnote might be a start. Also note that this solution here might not work with hyperref.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{parcolumns}
\usepackage[paperheight=9cm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\begin{parcolumns}{2}
\colchunk[1]{
Foo\footnotemark
}\footnotetext{Baz the first}
\colchunk[2]{
Bar\footnotemark
}\footnotetext{Baz the second}
\end{parcolumns}
\end{document}