If you don't use any additional code, the footnotes in the minipage environment will continue with the number of the last footnote + 1. Is it possible to start footnotes with an arabic 1 again in a minibox when there occurred a number of footnotes before?
If you use 'alphanotes' of egreg Change footnote "numbering" temporarily, there is an alphabetic numbering in the text and an arabic numbering in the footnote section.
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,oneside]{article} %Aber noch mal wegen Subsublines und so schauen
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel} %dt. Silbentrennung
\usepackage[applemac]{inputenc} %Richtiges Sprach-Funktionieren am Mac
\let\thempfootnote\thefootnote
% ---------
\newenvironment{alphafootnotes}
{\par\edef\savedfootnotenumber{\number\value{footnote}}
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\alph{footnote}}
\setcounter{footnote}{0}}
{\par\setcounter{footnote}{\savedfootnotenumber}}
%------------
\begin{document}
This is a document.\footnote{\dots}
\begin{minipage}[t]{.42\textwidth}%\centering
\begin{alphafootnotes}
Example.\footnotemark{}\footnotetext{\label{foot:1}Vgl. Quellenangabe, S. 234.}
Example.\footnotemark{}\footnotetext{\label{foot:2}Vgl. Quellenangabe, S. 234.}
\end{alphafootnotes}
\end{minipage}
\end{document}
Best Answer
You probably misunderstood the purpose of the macros you tried to adapt. For your case it's sufficient to say
and use
\footnote
normally in the minipage.Example.
For preparing the image I reduced the text height (not shown in the code). Are you sure that
applemac
is the right encoding? If you use TeXShop, you can (and should) set the input encoding to UTF-8.