parcolumns: no footnotes are produced

Question

The footnote number appears in the printed text but I cannot see any footnote when using the parcolumns environment:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{parcolumns}
\usepackage[paperheight=9cm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\begin{parcolumns}{2}
\colchunk[1]{
Foo
}
\colchunk[2]{
Bar\footnote{Baz}
}
\end{parcolumns}
\end{document}

output

Is there any workaround to solve this problem?

I reduced your code a bit, now it is a real MWE. XeLaTeX had nothing to do with the problem. — doncherry, Dec 30 '12 at 19:13

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

6

The parcolumns documentation (section 4) says:

Footnotes are not set in columns.

Here's a way to circumvent this. Note that it only works if you only have one footnote per \colchunk. Otherwise, you’ll have to fiddle with counters; Reference different places to the same footnote might be a start. Also note that this solution here might not work with hyperref.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{parcolumns}
\usepackage[paperheight=9cm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\begin{parcolumns}{2}
\colchunk[1]{
Foo\footnotemark
}\footnotetext{Baz the first}
\colchunk[2]{
Bar\footnotemark
}\footnotetext{Baz the second}
\end{parcolumns}
\end{document}

output

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

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answered Dec 30 '12 at 19:00

doncherry

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You also need to be careful about where you place the \footnotemark. Because of the asynchronous page-breaking (I think), it will sometimes be necessary to call \footnotetext before \footnotemark (otherwise, the footnote mark and corresponding footnote text can appear on different pages). – jon Dec 31 '12 at 00:38

parcolumns: no footnotes are produced

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