Error with hyperref + tabular + footnotes in tabular

Question

Here's the code:

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article}

\usepackage{array}

\newcommand{\fntxt}[1]{\footnotetext{#1}}
\newcommand{\fnstep}{\stepcounter{footnote}}
\newcommand{\fnmark}{\footnotemark}

\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{| c | c |}
\hline
Test1\fnmark & Test2\fnmark \\ \hline
\end{tabular}

\addtocounter{footnote}{-1}
\fntxt{Footnote 1}
\fnstep
\fntxt{Footnote 2}

\end{document}

I pdflatex it twice. The problem is: (1) when I click on the first footnote, I'm "transferred" to the same page, not pointed to the first footnote text; (2) when I click on the second, I'm correctly pointed to the second footnote text.

I've also tried to add more than two footnotes in the tabular. It turns out that only the last reference is working.

What's the reason behind this? How can one fix it?

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

The hyperref support for footnotes can be easily broken; here's what the hyperref documentation says about the hyperfootnotes option:

Makes the footnote marks into hyperlinks to the footnote text. Easily broken...

In this thread at comp.text.tex, Heiko Oberdiek says (referring to the same issue discussed here):

It is beyond the scope of hyperref's footnote support. Thus you can either disable it: hyperfootnotes=false or you have to fiddle with internal macros.

And here's the fiddling he announces (and illustrates with an exampe) adapted to your particular situation:

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\makeatletter 
\begin{tabular}{cc}
Test1\footnotemark 
  \global\let\saved@Href@A\Hy@footnote@currentHref 
&
Test2\footnotemark 
  \global\let\saved@Href@B\Hy@footnote@currentHref 
\end{tabular}

\addtocounter{footnote}{-1}% 
\let\Hy@footnote@currentHref\saved@Href@A 
\footnotetext{Footnote text}% 
\addtocounter{footnote}{1}% 
\let\Hy@footnote@currentHref\saved@Href@B 
\footnotetext{Footnote text}% 

\makeatother

\end{document}

Answer 2

If it is OK for you to use the tabular inside of a table environment, you could use the tablefootnote package and just use \tablefootnote{ ... } in the table. (And optionally you can center the table and add a caption.)

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{tablefootnote}
\begin{document}

\begin{table}
%\centering
\begin{tabular}{| c | c |}
\hline
Test1\tablefootnote{Footnote 1} & Test2\tablefootnote{Footnote 2} \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
%\caption{This is a table.\label{FirstTable}}
\end{table}

A pagebreak:

\pagebreak

and a second page, so that you can see that the hyperlinks really work.

\end{document}