footnote in multiple places in a table

Question

I want to add the same footnote in multiple places in a table. Can anyone please help me to do that.

 \befin{minipage}[b]{0.9\linewidth}
 \begin{tabular}{l l l }
 \hline
 a & b & c \footnote{this is the ref} \\
 d & f & e \footnote{I want the same foot note here}\\
 j & l & m \\
\end{tabular} 
\end{minipage}

What about Multiple references to the same footnote inside a table environment? — Werner, Jul 16 '14 at 17:18
Do you want the footnote to appear at the bottom of the table (and numbered independently from other footnotes) or at the bottom of the page, with other footnotes? — Bernard, Jul 16 '14 at 17:40

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 16 '14 at 20:46

The threeparttable environment, provided by the threeparttable package, is designed to handle just this task.

The three parts of the threeparttable environment are (a) the caption, (b) the tabular (or tabular*, tabularx, or whatever) sub-environment, and (c) the tablenotes sub-environment. As the package's user guide says, there's nothing automatic about the table notes: You choose how they're labeled -- you can freely mix and match numbers, letters, and symbols should you want to do so -- and the order in which they should be placed. Footnote markers are generated with \tnote{...} directives in the tabular(*xy) environment, and the corresponding footnotes are placed after \item [...] statements in the tablenotes part of the structure.

In the example below I've chosen alphabetic labels. Do note that a threeparttable environment doesn't float (in the LaTeX sense of the word "float"). If you need it to float, encase it in a table environment.

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{threeparttable}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{threeparttable}
\renewcommand\TPTminimum{3in} 
\caption{A table with one repeated footnote}
\begin{tabular*}{3in}{l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}ll} % select your preferred table environment here
\hline
 a & b & c\tnote{a} \\
 d & f & e\tnote{a}\\
 j & l\tnote{b} & m\\
\hline
\end{tabular*} 
\begin{tablenotes}
\item [a] The footnote that goes with marker ``a''
\item [b] The footnote that goes with marker ``b''
\end{tablenotes}
\end{threeparttable}
\end{table}
\end{document}

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 16 '14 at 20:29

I recommend to use the package scrextend and its command \footref{<key>} where <key> is defined in a \label{<key>} into the footnote that you wish to repeat.

Here my code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{scrextend}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}[b]{0.9\linewidth}
 \begin{tabular}{lll}
 \hline
 a\footnote{This is other note.} & b & c \footnote{\label{mynote}This is the repeated \textbf{ref}.} \\
 d & f & e \footref{mynote} \\%{I want the same foot note here}
 j & l & m \\
\end{tabular} 
\end{minipage}
\end{document}

And the result

enter image description here

footnote in multiple places in a table

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