Footnotes below floats?

[rezon...@yahoo.no]

In LaTeX, if I float a figure or table to the bottom of the page,
footnotes are places above it -- not below. E.g., the example document

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
This is a paragraph.\footnote{This is a footnote.}
\begin{figure}[b]
This is a figure at the bottom of the page.
\end{figure}
\end{document}

produces

This is a paragraph.1
____
1. This is a footnote.

This is a figure at the bottom of the page.

rather than

This is a paragraph.1

This is a figure at the bottom of the page.
____
1. This is a footnote.

How can I fix this?

[Alan Munn]

In article
<f45b281a-a733-486a...@s28g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>,
rezon...@yahoo.no wrote:

Untested with other packages:
(Documentation can be found under the name sttools.)

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{stfloats}
\fnbelowfloat

\begin{document}
This is a paragraph.\footnote{This is a footnote.}
\begin{figure}[b]
This is a figure at the bottom of the page.
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Alan

[rezon...@yahoo.no]

Thanks for the reply. I see now that the footmisc package addresses
the problem as well:

There's a further infelicity in LaTeX's placing of footnotes of
the bottom of pages: if a bottom float appears on a page, LaTeX
places the footnote /above/ it. The `bottom' option places the
footnote at the foot of the page.

Thus, \usepackage[bottom]{footmisc} fixes it. :)