Hi Keith, On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Keith J. Schultz <[email protected]> wrote: > Most writers show poor style by stuffing all kinds of information in the > footnote
Thank you for your honest feedback. The purpose of the tabular footnotes is for citation information. I like verbose citations; I do not like seeing a reference with just a [1] and then I have to fish around in the nether regions of the book to get any clue as to what reference it refers to. Rather for each, say, theorem, I like to put on the same page (or close to the same page) as where the theorem occurs 1. multiple references for that one theorem (recent and old/original if possible) 2. reference information that is verbose enough to contain an author, a title, and a year (normally with additional info available in the Bibliography) I realize this style is not standard in the book industry, but I like it. And I think not having it this way may in part be a vestige of out-dated technology (e.g. typesetting with a simple typewriter). Thus, I often have several lines (one line per reference) for a single footnote. And I implement this using a tabular environment. I think tabular environments are a good mechanism for aligning material neatly. Dan I like to put verbose citations (one line of reference info) for each reference, On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Keith J. Schultz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Though, you problem is interesting, but I can believe you have this > problem. > > You do realize that a footnote in general is not intend to contain this kind > of > information. Even though it may be possible in TeX, et al. > > Most writers show poor style by stuffing all kinds of information in the > footnote > because they do not take the time to properly integrate what the have to say > into the main > text. > > But, you can do whatever you want. > > regards > Keith. > > Am 04.12.2011 um 00:31 schrieb Daniel Greenhoe: > >> When I put a tabular in a footnote, the tabular often is extended >> outside the text area. Besides placing a newline directive after the >> tabular environment, is there anything I can do to prevent this >> behavior? That is, how can I best ensure that tabulars in a footnote >> get typeset completely within the text area? Here is an example: >> >> \documentclass[12pt]{book} >> \usepackage[xetex,a4paper,noheadfoot,nomarginpar,margin=20mm,showframe]{geometry} >> \begin{document}% >> xyz\footnote{% >> %\raisebox{2.5mm}{ >> \begin{tabular}[t]{|l|} >> \hline >> abc\\ >> def\\ >> ghj\\ >> klm\\ >> \hline >> \end{tabular}%\\ >> %}% >> } >> xyz\footnote{% >> %\raisebox{2.5mm}{ >> \begin{tabular}[t]{|l|} >> \hline >> abc\\ >> def\\ >> ghj\\ >> klm\\ >> \hline >> \end{tabular}%\\ >> %}% >> } >> \end{document}% >> >> Many thanks in advance, >> Dan >> <foottbl.tex><foottbl.pdf> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
