[XeTeX] tabular in footnote
Daniel Greenhoe
dgreenhoe at gmail.com
Tue Dec 6 22:16:49 CET 2011
Thank you everyone for your help with this problem. I will regard it
as a bug. I hope that someday it can be fully resolved.
Dan
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Daniel Greenhoe <dgreenhoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Heiko,
>
> Thank you for your hard work on my behalf. I did try compiling your
> code; but it still seems to have the same problem as my original
> example (see attachments). Did I do something wrong?
>
> Dan
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Heiko Oberdiek
> <heiko.oberdiek at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 07:31:59AM +0800, Daniel Greenhoe wrote:
>>
>>> When I put a tabular in a footnote, the tabular often is extended
>>> outside the text area. Besides placing a newline directive after the
>>> tabular environment, is there anything I can do to prevent this
>>> behavior? That is, how can I best ensure that tabulars in a footnote
>>> get typeset completely within the text area? Here is an example:
>>>
>>> \documentclass[12pt]{book}
>>> \usepackage[xetex,a4paper,noheadfoot,nomarginpar,margin=20mm,showframe]{geometry}
>>> \begin{document}%
>>> xyz\footnote{%
>>> %\raisebox{2.5mm}{
>>> \begin{tabular}[t]{|l|}
>>> \hline
>>> abc\\
>>> def\\
>>> ghj\\
>>> klm\\
>>> \hline
>>> \end{tabular}%\\
>>> %}%
>>> }
>>> xyz\footnote{%
>>> %\raisebox{2.5mm}{
>>> \begin{tabular}[t]{|l|}
>>> \hline
>>> abc\\
>>> def\\
>>> ghj\\
>>> klm\\
>>> \hline
>>> \end{tabular}%\\
>>> %}%
>>> }
>>> \end{document}%
>>
>> I don't see a relation to XeTeX, thus the mailing list texhash
>> might be the better choice for this question.
>>
>> The following example addresses calculates the shift to align
>> the baseline of the footnote line with the first line of
>> the tabular. No time for looking at the problem with the overfull \vbox.
>>
>> \documentclass[12pt]{book}
>> \usepackage{array}
>> \usepackage[
>> a4paper,noheadfoot,nomarginpar,margin=20mm,showframe
>> ]{geometry}
>> \usepackage{zref-savepos}
>>
>> \makeatletter
>> \newsavebox\tl at box
>> \newcount\c at tlcount
>> \setcounter{tlcount}{0}
>> \def\thetlcount{\the\c at tlcount}
>> \newenvironment*{tltabular}[1]{%
>> \stepcounter{tlcount}%
>> \begin{lrbox}{\tl at box}%
>> \begin{tabular}[t]{|#1|}%
>> \hline
>> \zref at savepos
>> \zref at labelbyprops{tl at b\thetlcount}{posy}%
>> \ignorespaces
>> }{%
>> \hline
>> \end{tabular}%
>> \end{lrbox}%
>> \zref at refused{tl at a\thetlcount}%
>> \zref at refused{tl at b\thetlcount}%
>> \dimen@=\dimexpr
>> \zposy{tl at a\thetlcount}sp-\zposy{tl at b\thetlcount}sp%
>> \relax
>> \raisebox{\dimen@}{%
>> \zref at savepos
>> \zref at labelbyprops{tl at a\thetlcount}{posy}%
>> \box\tl at box
>> }%
>> }
>>
>> \begin{document}%
>> xyz\footnote{%
>> \begin{tltabular}{l}
>> abc\\
>> def\\
>> ghj\\
>> klm\\
>> \end{tltabular}%\\
>> }
>> xyz\footnote{%
>> \begin{tltabular}{l}
>> abc\\
>> def\\
>> ghj\\
>> klm\\
>> \end{tltabular}%\\
>> }
>> \end{document}%
>>
>> Yours sincerely
>> Heiko Oberdiek
>>
>>
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