Thank you everyone for your help with this problem. I will regard it as a bug. I hope that someday it can be fully resolved.
Dan On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Daniel Greenhoe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Heiko, > > Thank you for your hard work on my behalf. I did try compiling your > code; but it still seems to have the same problem as my original > example (see attachments). Did I do something wrong? > > Dan > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Heiko Oberdiek > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 07:31:59AM +0800, Daniel Greenhoe wrote: >> >>> 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}% >> >> I don't see a relation to XeTeX, thus the mailing list texhash >> might be the better choice for this question. >> >> The following example addresses calculates the shift to align >> the baseline of the footnote line with the first line of >> the tabular. No time for looking at the problem with the overfull \vbox. >> >> \documentclass[12pt]{book} >> \usepackage{array} >> \usepackage[ >> a4paper,noheadfoot,nomarginpar,margin=20mm,showframe >> ]{geometry} >> \usepackage{zref-savepos} >> >> \makeatletter >> \newsavebox\tl@box >> \newcount\c@tlcount >> \setcounter{tlcount}{0} >> \def\thetlcount{\the\c@tlcount} >> \newenvironment*{tltabular}[1]{% >> \stepcounter{tlcount}% >> \begin{lrbox}{\tl@box}% >> \begin{tabular}[t]{|#1|}% >> \hline >> \zref@savepos >> \zref@labelbyprops{tl@b\thetlcount}{posy}% >> \ignorespaces >> }{% >> \hline >> \end{tabular}% >> \end{lrbox}% >> \zref@refused{tl@a\thetlcount}% >> \zref@refused{tl@b\thetlcount}% >> \dimen@=\dimexpr >> \zposy{tl@a\thetlcount}sp-\zposy{tl@b\thetlcount}sp% >> \relax >> \raisebox{\dimen@}{% >> \zref@savepos >> \zref@labelbyprops{tl@a\thetlcount}{posy}% >> \box\tl@box >> }% >> } >> >> \begin{document}% >> xyz\footnote{% >> \begin{tltabular}{l} >> abc\\ >> def\\ >> ghj\\ >> klm\\ >> \end{tltabular}%\\ >> } >> xyz\footnote{% >> \begin{tltabular}{l} >> abc\\ >> def\\ >> ghj\\ >> klm\\ >> \end{tltabular}%\\ >> } >> \end{document}% >> >> Yours sincerely >> Heiko Oberdiek >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: >> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
