[Tex/LaTex] Change Footnote Order/Numbering at Bottom of Page

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I'm using LyX. I created a box/minipage and put a table in it, so as to allow footnotes in the table (see here: How to put notes under table in LYX). I am using manyfoot for footnotes and tried allowing it to number itself, but it didn't number the footnotes the way I needed them to be:

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I fixed this by manually specifying the footnote numbers, like this: \footnoteA[1]{This is a footnote.} and this worked in terms of the numbering in the table, but now there's an issue with the way the footnotes are listed at the bottom of the page:

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Is there a way to fix this? I'm using LyX with the document class KOMA-Script Book.

Thank you for any suggestions or help you can provide! – J.D.

Best Answer

Note: This answer does not preserve hyperlinks from superscript numbers to footnotes. This means that while this is a viable answer for printed materials, those aiming to make a working .pdf may not be satisfied with this answer.

These instructions are made with LyX in mind. If you are using another editor, you may have to make some adjustments.

  1. Create and fill the table (no box/minipage is necessary)
  2. Where you want to add a footnote, press Cmd+L to enter inline code. (This works for LyX on Mac, the shortcut will be different for LyX on Windows/Linux. In this case, if you don't know the shortcut, you can find a button on the toolbar marked "TEX" or go to the menu: Insert > TeX Code)
  3. Enter \footnotemark[1] -- where 1 is the number that will be displayed in superscript.
  4. Below the table (or somewhere else, if you so desire) enter the inline code: \footnotetext[1]{This is the footnote text.}
  5. For further footnotes, increment the number in the square brackets like so \footnotemark[2] and \footnotetext[2]{This is a second footnote.}

Here are some solutions to common problems:

Problem: Cannot enter code into the table. This can happen if you copied and pasted 'Verbatim' style text into the table, which does not allow entering inline code. To get around this, you can either undo entering the text into the table, style it with another style, then put it back in the table. Or, you can create the \footnotemark[1] code outside the table, cut/copy it and then paste it where you want in the table.

Problem: Styles don't work in the inline code. LyX users don't (necessarily) spend a lot of time editing code, but this is what LyX is really made of -- go to View > Source Pane to see what I mean. You will need to enter the code to change the appearance of the footnote text rather than being able to use shortcuts or menus to style it. \emph{text with emphasis} adds emphasis to the text in the brackets. To discover how to style things further, or add things like citations, go to View > Source Pane and examine some of the document you've already written. If you want your footnote to have certain citations or attributes, you can write that text outside of the inline code box and then view the source to see how to reproduce it in the inline code box. I found this helpful when learning code, but if this is too complex or confusing, there are also tutorials available online: on LyX: http://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/lyx/UserGuide.tex.html on LaTeX: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX on TeX: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TeX

I hope others may find this useful. As I said, it doesn't completely fix things, as hyperlinks aren't present, but for appearances, it certainly works. - J.D.

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