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In article <96680002@hpwin052.uksr.hp.com>, malcolms@hpwin052.uksr.hp.com (Malcolm Standring) writes:
|> In comp.text.tex, fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) writes:
|> 
|> >   Is there a way to provide a footnote to an entry of a table?  I 
|> >   have tried everything in Appendix C.2.3 in Lamport's book without
|> >   any success.  I only got the footnote mark, but the text
|> >   portion never showed up at the bottom of the page the table resides.
|> 
|> Yep, if you look carefully, \footnote will only work inside paragraph
|> mode, and won't work inside a box (except within MINIPAGE). Fortunately
|> the solution is dead easy, first put
|> 
|>         \footnotemark
|> 
|> where you want the mark inside the table, and then as soon as you've
|> got back into normal paragraph mode (like immediately after your table):
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|>         \footnotetext{ <this is the missing footnote text> }
|> 
|> You don't even need to worry about the footnote counters, good old
|> LaTeX increments them correctly. If only ALL questions had such a 
|> clean solution.....

the only trouble is that when you have to group tables for a chapter at
the end, i.e. after all paragraphs.  Then obviously the {text} from your
\footnotetext shows up *before* the table which it annotates.

After reading p.99 of Lamport's book a few more times and hints from
two helpful netters, I think minipage together with \footnotemark,\footnotetext
should be sufficient for my needs.

Regards,

Chin Fang
fangchin@leland.stanford.edu