I need to use a minipage environment and I need a footnote in that minipage. I want the footnote to be numbered in the normal footnote sequence and to occur together with the rest of the footnotes in my document. But, as this minimal example shows:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Spam
\begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth}
Foo\footnote{bar}
\end{minipage}
Ham
\end{document}
the obvious thing produces a footnote that 1) appears at the bottom of the minipage, and not the page itself, and 2) is "numbered" alphabetically.
How can I get a regular footnote in a minipage?
Best Answer
You should use the
footnotemark
andfootnotetext
commands to artificially insert the mark and text.Modifying your MWE, we have
which produces