minipage and longtable

[Riccardo 'Jack' Lucchetti]

Hi everyone. I need some help on a longtable environment inside a minipage.
Look at the following (minimal) LaTeX document:
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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{longtable}

\begin{document}

Ha\footnote{Ha}. Ha\footnote{Ha}.

\noindent
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\begin{longtable}{|p{1.2in}|rrrr|}
\hline
{Test\footnote{Footnote text}} & 3 & 12 & 4 & 4 \\
\hline
\end{longtable}
\end{minipage}

Ha\footnote{Ha}.

\end{document}
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Leave aside for the moment the reasons why one should want to put a longtable
inside a minipage. The trouble is, if you compile this document, you get a wrong
numbering of the footnote inside the minipage: the footnotemark starts from [a]
(as it should), but the footnotetext follows the main document and puts a nice [b]
in the output.

Bug or feature? I think it's a bug, but I'd be glad to be proven wrong.

Riccardo `Jack' Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università di Ancona

ja...@deanovell.unian.it
http://www.econ.unian.it/lucchetti

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:08:59 +0100, Riccardo 'Jack' Lucchetti
<ja...@deanovell.unian.it> wrote:

> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> \usepackage{longtable}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> Ha\footnote{Ha}. Ha\footnote{Ha}.
>
> \noindent
> \begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
> \begin{longtable}{|p{1.2in}|rrrr|}
> \hline
> {Test\footnote{Footnote text}} & 3 & 12 & 4 & 4 \\
> \hline
> \end{longtable}
> \end{minipage}
>
> Ha\footnote{Ha}.
>
> \end{document}
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Leave aside for the moment the reasons why one should want to put a longtable
> inside a minipage.

But this is the cause of your trouble. Package longtable
was written to span over pages. Using longtable inside
a minipage is outside of its spec.

> The trouble is, if you compile this document, you get a wrong
> numbering of the footnote inside the minipage: the footnotemark starts from [a]
> (as it should), but the footnotetext follows the main document and puts a nice [b]
> in the output.

Replacing "longtable" by "tabular" will fix your problem.

Yours sincerely
Heiko <ober...@uni-freiburg.de>

[Riccardo 'Jack' Lucchetti]

In article <st0grt0sc577pq9sb...@4ax.com>, Heiko Oberdiek <ober...@uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>>
>> Leave aside for the moment the reasons why one should want to put a longtable
>> inside a minipage.
>
> But this is the cause of your trouble. Package longtable
> was written to span over pages. Using longtable inside
> a minipage is outside of its spec.
>

The files I'm working on contain lots of longtable environments because such is
the output of a translation program from RTF to LaTeX (which, by the way, is excellent;
I wish there was available a tool for going in the other direction.as effectively). Any
RTF table gets converted into a longtable, irrespective of its actual size. I thought
that the quickest way to have my tables float was to wrap them up into minipages.
Moreover, I could not find any reference to the minipage environment in the longtable
docs (I admit I haven't searched so hard).

>> The trouble is, if you compile this document, you get a wrong
>> numbering of the footnote inside the minipage: the footnotemark starts from [a]
>> (as it should), but the footnotetext follows the main document and puts a nice [b]
>> in the output.
>
> Replacing "longtable" by "tabular" will fix your problem.
>
> Yours sincerely
> Heiko <ober...@uni-freiburg.de>

Thanks a lot.

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