Footnotes in longtable captions

Question

Is there a way to put a footnote in longtable caption?

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{longtable}

\begin{document}

  \begin{longtable}{|c|}
    \caption{Table 
    %    \footnote{Footnote}    % Uncommenting results in error.
    } \\   
    \hline      
    Something \\
    \hline      
  \end{longtable}

\end{document}

score 12 · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-24T12:59:18.267

12

From longtable documentation:

Note however that \footnote will not work in the ‘head’ or ‘foot’ sections of the table. In order to put a footnote in those sections (e.g., inside a caption), use \footnotemark at that point, and \footnotetext anywhere in the table body that will fall on the same page.

Hence the MWE will be

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{longtable}
\begin{document}
\begin{longtable}{|c|}
    \caption[Table is very long]{Table is very long\protect\footnotemark}\\ %<------footnote mark here
    \hline
    Something \footnotetext{This is a caption} \\ %<------footnote text here
    \hline
\end{longtable}
\end{document}

Edit: Added short caption as per Gonzalo's suggestion. With short caption added, \protect won't be necessary.

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edited Aug 24 '12 at 12:59

answered Mar 30 '12 at 23:42

4

It could be sensible to use the optional argument of \caption, as in \caption[Table is very long]{Table is very long\protect\footnotemark} to prevent the mark from having a wrong numbering in the text and from appearing also in a possible list of figures – Gonzalo Medina Mar 30 '12 at 23:52
@GonzaloMedina, Thanks, I have made the changes. – Mar 30 '12 at 23:57
With the changes made, \protect is unnecessary. – Ivan Bychkov Apr 01 '12 at 21:50
I am trying this as well. My documentclass is report. It returns errors if I don't use \protect. It does not produce any notes either with \protect\footnotetext or with \protect\footnotemark. – Cost Aug 24 '12 at 08:49
@Costi: What errors you get? For me it works. May be you should update your packages. – Aug 24 '12 at 13:00
How do I update them? – Cost Aug 24 '12 at 14:06
1

@Costi: Refer How do I update my TeX distribution? – Aug 24 '12 at 14:09

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 17 '19 at 00:36

You can keep the normal \footnote command by using the footnotehyper package:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{footnotehyper}
\makesavenoteenv{longtable}

\begin{document}

\begin{longtable}{|c|}
  \caption[tab]{Table\footnote{Footnote}} \\   
  \hline
  Something \\
  \hline
\end{longtable}

\end{document}

Footnotes in longtable captions

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