Footnotes in figure captions

[Jim Hunter]

I have a jpg image I want to include as a figure (the figure takes up an
entire page), with a rather long caption below it. The caption also
needs to have a footnote in it. I tried using ctable, but the footnote
appears _above_ the caption. I have also tried using the figure
environment, but adding \footnotemark inside the caption gives me a TeX
error:

! Argument of \@caption has an extra }.

I would appreciate any help.

Jim

[Lars Madsen]

Post by Jim Hunter
I have a jpg image I want to include as a figure (the figure takes up an
entire page), with a rather long caption below it. The caption also
needs to have a footnote in it. I tried using ctable, but the footnote
appears _above_ the caption. I have also tried using the figure
environment, but adding \footnotemark inside the caption gives me a TeX
I would appreciate any help.
Jim

have you tried

\caption[text]{text\protect\footnote{footnote text}}

[Robin Fairbairns]

Post by Lars Madsen

[impossible request]

have you tried
\caption[text]{text\protect\footnote{footnote text}}

you presumably mean \caption[text]{text\footnote{footnote text}} (the
mandatory argument doesn't move in the presence of the optional one.)

doesn't work unless the figure's in a minipage. footnotes in captions
are the spawn of the devil.

[Jim Hunter]

Post by Lars Madsen

Post by Jim Hunter
I have a jpg image I want to include as a figure (the figure takes up an
entire page), with a rather long caption below it. The caption also
needs to have a footnote in it. I tried using ctable, but the footnote
appears _above_ the caption. I have also tried using the figure
environment, but adding \footnotemark inside the caption gives me a TeX
I would appreciate any help.
Jim

have you tried
\caption[text]{text\protect\footnote{footnote text}}

That helped (the error went away), but the footnote text doesn't
appear. Useful nevertheless. I ended up with another solution (posted
separately)

Thanks

Jim

[Robin Fairbairns]

Post by Jim Hunter
I have a jpg image I want to include as a figure (the figure takes up an
entire page), with a rather long caption below it. The caption also
needs to have a footnote in it. I tried using ctable, but the footnote
appears _above_ the caption. I have also tried using the figure
environment, but adding \footnotemark inside the caption gives me a TeX
I would appreciate any help.

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ftncapt

mind you, you're asking rather a lot -- a figure that takes the whole
page, with a "rather long" caption and a footnote as well... it's
going to be a tight fit.

[Jim Hunter]

Post by Robin Fairbairns
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ftncapt
mind you, you're asking rather a lot -- a figure that takes the whole
page, with a "rather long" caption and a footnote as well... it's
going to be a tight fit.

True, I'm quite demanding. :) Actually, I meant it fills the page when
combined with the caption. Guess I haven't gotten the hang of searching
that FAQ - I didn't get that page on my searches. Thanks very much. I
ended up with the rather ugly hack below (but it worked, so I'm happy,
or would be if I could figure out how to suppress the page number on
that page).

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics{MVFig2}
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\caption{\label{fig:mv_modes}Comparison of SIMV, A/C, and PSV
modes.\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}\footnotemark[2]
Blah, blah, blah... }

\renewcommand{\thempfootnote}{\fnsymbol{mpfootnote}}
\footnotetext[2]{footnote text}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}

Thanks again.

Jim