Footnotes being rendered as letters inside tabular

Question

I wrote a couple of footnotes inside a table using minipage, but they are rendered as letters instead of numbers. I couldn't find anything about it in Google. I tried using

\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\arabic{footnote}}

inside the minipage, but it didn't help. What can I do?

could you provide a MWE for folks to play with? – cmhughes Jan 12 '13 at 03:44 — cmhughes, Jan 12 '13 at 03:44
What about a fbox or mbox? Isn't the same thing but... – Willian Paixao Jan 12 '13 at 03:53 — Willian Paixao, Jan 12 '13 at 03:53

score 9 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

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The footnote counter inside a minipage is mpfootnote rather than footnote, and by default, such footnotes are formatted as \alph. If you simply want the footnotes to be numbered (and have a numbering independent of your main footnote numbering) then it suffices to use

\renewcommand{\thempfootnote}{\arabic{mpfootnote}}

There are other ways to put footnotes in tables, in particular the threeparttable package or the tablefootnote package. See, for example:

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

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answered Jan 12 '13 at 04:30

Alan Munn

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Thank you, that did it. I chose minipage because it seemed simpler than the other alternatives. – erickrf Jan 13 '13 at 02:33

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 12 '13 at 04:29

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Within minipages, the counter for footnotes is independent of the footnote counter outside of a minipage. Issue the following within your minipage and things should work as you wish:

\renewcommand{\thempfootnote}{\arabic{mpfootnote}}

answered Jan 12 '13 at 04:29

A.Ellett

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Footnotes being rendered as letters inside tabular

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