Questions tagged [footnotes]

{footnotes} is about typesetting footnotes. Popular packages are {footmisc}, {footnote}, and {bigfoot}.

Popular packages related to footnotes are:

  • footmisc — Customize footnotes
  • footnote — Better handling of footnotes inside boxes
  • bigfoot — Multiple footnote levels

Things to do with footnotes:

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How to fix Footnote position at the bottom of the page

\footnote[1]{\nameref*{8.1.16} is an अधिकार सूत्र it goes upto \nameref*{8.3.55}} \& अङ्गाधिकार (अङ्गस्य)\footnote[2]{\nameref*{6.4.1} is an अधिकार सूत्र it goes upto \nameref*{7.4.97}} I am using footnote as shown above. However the footnote…
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Inserting space after the number in footnotes

Text of Footnotes are very close to their numbers. How can I make 2mm space after all footnote numbers (or 2mm before every footnote text)? \documentclass[draft,12pt,a4paper]{article} \begin{document} X\footnote{x} Y\footnote{y} \end{document}
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Compressing consecutive footnote marks

This question led to a new package: footnoterange I have a series of consecutively numbered footnotes that appear as (1,2,...,N). I would like these to be condensed to a hyphenated series consisting of only the first and last member of the series…
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Using \thanks and \footnote without without numbering/mark and line

I want to use \thanks and \footnote without any numbering/mark with my title. Is there a way to do it? I use: \documentclass[letterpaper,twocolumn,10pt]{article} after Alan Munn's answer it works for the numbering or mark, but what about the line…
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Split LaTeX footnotes into two columns

I have a number of short footnotes that form a column and make my paper look pretty crappy, and so I'd like to have LaTeX put multiple footnotes on one horizontal line. I've tried using the [para]{footmisc} package, but that bunches them all up on…
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Different formatting of footnote mark in text and in footnote

I want that my footnotes have numbers like this: in the text : like this : (7) instead of just 7. in the bottom of the page (where the note text is) : like this : 7. This is my note... blah... If I use : …
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How can I include underscores in a footnote?

Possible Duplicate: Getting those %#!^& signs in the footnote! I'm trying to do \footnote{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds} And it appears to be breaking because of the…
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Footnotes in one column in twocolumn document

I have a Latex code with twocolumn option in article.cls. \documentclass [11pt,twocolumn]{article} \usepackage[affil-it]{authblk} \usepackage{blindtext} \usepackage{abstract} \makeatletter \newbox\abstract@box \renewenvironment{abstract} …
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Footnote, non-inline syntax?

I would like to use footnotes without cluttering the container paragraph. Something like: This is a very long complex\footnote[a] sentence. \foottext[a]{So complex that I would prefer to pull out the footnote text.} The idea comes from the…
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Two types of footnotes

Sorry for asking so much questions. And I think this one is pretty easy I just don't know how. I would like to use two types of footnotes in my document. The regular \footnote using the arabic counting. And lets say \footnotea using the alphabetic…
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How to use the footnotebackref package with \footnotemark and \footnotetext?

I am using footnotebackref to have links and back links between footnote marks and footnote texts. But the example below produces this error: ! Undefined control sequence. \BackrefFootnoteTag l.5 \footnotetext{My note.} My sample…
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Footnotes: distance between number and text

See this mwe: \documentclass{article} \makeatletter \renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{% \parindent 1em% \noindent\hbox{\sf\bfseries\@thefnmark}\hspace*{.7em plus 0pt minus 0pt}#1} \makeatother \begin{document} Hello\footnote{I am a…
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How to use a link as footnote that has special characters inside?

I want to use the following footnote: \footnote{http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee804826%28Surface.10%29.aspx} But the problem is since there are % symbols in the link, it is recognized as a comment. How can I avoid that?
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How to change footnote number to non-superscript

I've almost got my footnotes formatted just the way I want them, thanks to the footmisc package. But using hanging footnotes it's a bit annoying to have the notes marked with that superscript number that rises above the line (probably makes sense to…
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Do footnotes take margin space?

For a project I need the margin at minimum 2cm. I have added footnotes and am wondering if this makes the bottom of the page less than 2cm. It looks the same but I am just looking for clarification. Thank you in advance.
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