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Footnotes
Marginal notes
Endnotes

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A
On-line Tutorial on LTEX
The Tutorial Team
Indian TEX Users Group,  Buildings, Cotton Hills
Trivandrum 695014,  Page 1 of 12
2000

Prof. (Dr.) K. S. S. Nambooripad, Director, Center for Mathematical Sciences, Trivandrum, (Editor); Dr. E. Krishnan, Reader
in Mathematics, University College, Trivandrum; Mohit Agarwal, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of
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Science, Bangalore; T. Rishi, Focal Image (India) Pvt. Ltd., Trivandrum; L. A. Ajith, Focal Image (India) Pvt. Ltd.,
Trivandrum; A. M. Shan, Focal Image (India) Pvt. Ltd., Trivandrum; C. V. Radhakrishnan, River Valley Technologies,
Software Technology Park, Trivandrum constitute the Tutorial team

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14 Footnotes, Marginpars, and Endnotes

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Marginal notes
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LTEX has facilities to typeset “inserted” text, such as footnotes, marginal notes, figures and
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tables. This chapter looks more closely at different kinds of notes.
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14.1. Footnotes

Footnotes are generated with the command

footnote{footnote text}
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which comes immediately after the word requiring an explanation in a footnote. The next
{footnote text} appears as a footnote in a smaller typeface at the bottom of the page. The first
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line of the footnote is indented and is given the same footnote marker as that inserted in the
main text. The first footnote on a page is separated from the rest of the page text by means of a
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The standard footnote marker is a small, raised number1 , which is sequentially numbered.
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See how the footnote is produced: “ ... raised number footnote{See how the footnote is produced: ... }.

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Footnotes produced with the footnote command inside a minipage environment use the
mpfootnote counter and are typeset at the bottom of the parbox produced by the minipage.2

However, if you use the footnotemark command in a minipage it will produce a footnote
mark in the same style and sequence as the main text footnotes—i.e., stepping the mpfootnote
counter and using the thefootnote command for the representation. This behavior allows
you to produce a footnote inside your minipage that is typeset in sequence with the main text Footnotes
footnotes at the bottom of the page: you place a footnotemark inside the minipage and the Marginal notes
corresponding footnotetext after it. See below: Endnotes

begin{minipage}{5cm}
Footnotes in a minipage are numbered Footnotes in a minipage are Title Page
numbered using lowercase
using lowercase letters.a
letters.footnote{Inside
This text references a footnote at the minipage} par This text
bottom of the page.3 references a footnote at
a
the bottom of the
Inside minipage page.footnotemark end{minipage}
footnotetext{At bottom of page}

The footnote numbering is incremented throughout the whole document for the article class,
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where it is reset to 1 for each new chapter in the report and book classes.

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14.1.1. Footnotes in Tabular Material

Footnotes appearing inside tabular material are not typeset by standard LTEX. Only tabularx
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and longtable environments will treat footnotes correctly. But footnotes used in these tables
won’t come just following the tables, but appear at the bottom of the page just like the footnotes
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2 With nested minipages, the footnote comes after the next end{minipage} command, which could be at the wrong
place.
3 At bottom of page
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used in the text. But in longtable you can place the footnotes as table notes by placing the
longtable in a minipage. See below:

begin{minipage}{.47textwidth}
renewcommand{thefootnote}{thempfootnote}
begin{longtable}{ll} Footnotes
Table 14.1: PostScript type 1 fonts caption{PostScript type 1 fonts} Marginal notes
Courierfootnote{Donated by IBM.} &
Couriera cour,courb,courbi,couri Endnotes
cour,courb,courbi,couri
Nimbusb unmr, unmrs
Nimbusfootnote{Donated by URW GmbH.} &
URW Antiquab uaqrrc
unmr, unmrs
URW Groteskb ugqp Title Page
Utopiac putb, putbi, putr, putri URW Antiquafootnotemark[value{mpfootnote}]
& uaqrrc
a URW Groteskfootnotemark[value{mpfootnote}]
Donated by IBM.
b Donated by URW GmbH. & ugqp
c Donated by Adobe. Utopiafootnote{Donated by Adobe.} & putb,
putbi, putr, putri
end{longtable}
end{minipage}

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You can also put your tabular or array environment inside a minipage environment, since
in that case footnotes are typeset just following that environment. Note the redeﬁnition of
thefootnote that allows us to make use of the footnotemark command inside the minipage Go Back
environment. Without this redeﬁnition footnotemark would have generated a footnote mark
in the style of the footnotes for the main page.
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begin{minipage}{.5linewidth}
renewcommand{thefootnote}%
{thempfootnote}
begin{tabular}{ll}
multicolumn{2}{c}{bfseries% PostScript type 1 fonts
PostScript type 1 fonts} Couriera cour, courb, courbi, couri
Courierfootnote{Donated by IBM.} Charterb bchb, bchbi, bchr, bchri Footnotes
& cour,courb,courbi,couri Nimbusc unmr, unmrs
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URW Antiquac uaqrrc
Charterfootnote{Donated by Endnotes
URW Groteskc ugqp
Bitstream.} & bchb,bchbi,bchr,bchri
Utopiad putb, putbi, putr, putri
Nimbusfootnote{Donated by
URW GmbH.} & unmr, unmrs aDonated by IBM. Title Page
URW Antiquafootnotemark% bDonated by Bitstream.
[value{mpfootnote}] & uaqrrc cDonated by URW
URW Groteskfootnotemark% GmbH.
[value{mpfootnote}] & ugqp d Donated by Adobe.

Utopiafootnote{Donated by Adobe.}
& putb, putbi, putr, putri
end{tabular}
end{minipage}

Of course this approach does not automatically limit the width of the footnotes to the width of Page 5 of 12

the table, so a little iteration with the minipage width argument might be necessary.

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This package has the advantage that it indicates unambiguously that you are dealing with notes
inside tables and, moreover, it gives you full control of the actual reference marks and oﬀers the
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environment is similar to the nonﬂoating table environment.

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begin{threeparttable}
caption{textbf{PostScript type 1 fonts}}
begin{tabular}{ll}
Couriertnote{a} &
cour, courb, courbi, couri
Chartertnote{b} & Table 14.2: PostScript type 1 fonts
Couriera cour, courb, courbi, couri
bchb, bchbi, bchr, bchri Charterb bchb, bchbi, bchr, bchri
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Nimbustnote{c} & unmr, unmrs Nimbusc unmr, unmrs Marginal notes
URW Antiquatnote{c} & uaqrrc URW Antiquac uaqrrc Endnotes
URW Grotesktnote{c} & ugqp URW Groteskc ugqp
Utopiatnote{d} & Utopiad putb, putbi, putr, putri
putb, putbi, putr, putri a Donated by IBM.
b Donated by Bitstream.
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end{tabular}
begin{tablenotes} c Donated by URW GmbH.

item[a] Donated by IBM. d Donated by Adobe.

item[b] Donated by Bitstream.
item[c] Donated by URW GmbH.
item[d] Donated by Adobe.
end{tablenotes}
end{threeparttable}

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14.1.2. Customizing footnotes
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If the user wishes the footnote numbering to be reset to 1 for reach section command with the
article class, this may be achieved with putting
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setcounter{footnote} {0}

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before every sections or using the following command at preamble4

@addtoreset{footnote} {section}

The internal footnote counter has the name footnote. Each call to footnote increments this Footnotes
counter by one and prints the new value in Arabic numbering as the footnote marker. A diﬀerent Marginal notes
style of marker can be implemented with the command Endnotes

renewcommand{thefootnote}{number style{footnote}}
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where number style is one of the counter print commands. arabic, roman, Roman, alph,
or Alph. However, for the counter footnote, there is an additional counter print command
available, fnsymbol, which prints the counter values 1–9 as one of nine symbols:
† ‡ § ¶ †† ‡‡

It is up to the user to see that the footnote counter is reset to zero sometime before the tenth
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deﬁnition of fnsymbol. See an example, here which allows up to 12 footnotes without resetting
the counter
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makeatletter
def@fnsymbol#1{ensuremath{ifcase#1or *or daggeror ddaggeror
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or ddaggerddaggeror mathsectionmathsection
or mathparagraphmathparagraph or ||else@ctrerrfi}}
renewcommand{thefootnote}{fnsymbol{footnote}} Close
makeatother

4 This command will only work within makeatletter and makeatother
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An optional argument may be added to the footnote command

footnote[num]{footnote text}

where num is a positive integer that is used instead of the value of the footnote counter for the Footnotes
marker. In this case, the footnote counter is not incremented. For example∗∗ , Marginal notes
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renewcommand{thefootnote}{fnsymbol{footnote}}
For examplefootnote[7]{The 7th symbol .... marker.},
renewcommand{thefootnote}{arabic{footnote}} Title Page

where the last line is necessary to restore the footnote marker style to its standard form. Other-
wise, all future footnotes would be marked with symbols and not with numbers.

14.1.3. Footnote style parameters

The appearance of the standard footnote can be changed by customizing the parameters shown Page 8 of 12
below:

footnotesize The font size used inside footnotes
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footnotesep The height of a strut placed at the beginning of every footnote. If it is greater
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than the baselineskip used for footnotesize, then additional vertical space
will be inserted above each footnote.
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skipfootins A low-level TEX command that defines the space between the main text and
the start of the footnotes. You can change its value with the setlength or
addtolength commands by putting skipfootins into the first argument,
e.g.,

addtolength{skipfootins}{3mm}
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footnoterule A macro to draw the rule separating footnotes from the main text. It is exe-
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cuted right after the vertical space of skipfootins. It should take zero ver-
tical space, i.e., it should use a negative skip to compensate for any positive
space it occupies, for example:
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renewcommand{footnoterule{vspace*{-3pt}%
rule{.4columnwidth}{0.4pt}vspace*{2.6pt}

You can also construct a fancier “rule” e.g., one consisting of a series of dots:

renewcommand{footnoterule}{vspace*{-3pt}%
qquaddotfillqquadvspace*{2.6pt}}
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14.2. Marginal notes Go Back

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marginpar[left-text]{right-text}

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The marginpar command generates a marginal note. This command typesets the text given as
an argument in the margin, the first line at the same height as the line in the main text where the
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marginpar command occurs. The marginal note appearing here was generated with
This
is a
margi-
... command occursmarginpar{This is a marginal note}. nal
The ... note

When only the mandatory argument right-text is specified, then the text goes to the right Footnotes
margin for one-sided printing; to the outside margin for two-sided printing; and to the nearest Marginal notes
margin for two-column formatting. When you specify an optional argument, then it is used for
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the left margin, while the second (mandatory) argument is used for the right.

There are few important things to understand when using marginal notes. Firstly, marginpar
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command does not start a paragraph, that is, if it is used before the first word of a paragraph,
the vertical alignment may not match the beginning of the paragraph. Secondly, if the margin
is narrow, and the words are long (as in German), you may have to precede the first word by a
hspace{0pt} command to allow hyphenation of the first word. These two potential problems
can be eased by defining a command marginlabel{text}, which starts with an empty box
mbox{}, typesets a marginal note ragged left, and adds a hspace{0pt} in front of the argument.

newcommand{marginlabel}[1]
{mbox{}marginpar{raggedlefthspace{0pt}#1}}
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By default, in one-sided printing the marginal notes go on the outside margin. These defaults
can be changed by the following declarations:
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reversemarginpar marginal notes go into the opposite margin with respect to the default
one
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normalmarginpar marginal notes go into the default margin

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14.2.1. Uses of marginal notes

marginpar{} can be used to draw attention to certain text passages by marking them with a
vertical bar in the margin. The example marking this paragraph was made by including

marginpar{rule[-10.5mm]{1mm}{10mm}}
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in the first line.
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By defining a macro query as shown below

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defquery#1#2{underline{#1}marginpar{#2}}

we can produce queries. For example LTEX. This query is produced with the following com-
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Hey!
mand. Look

For example query{LaTeX}{Hey! Look}{}. This ...

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14.2.2. Style parameters for marginal notes

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marginparwidth determines the width of the margin box
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marginparsep sets the separation between the margin box and the edge of the main text
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marginparpush is the smallest vertical distance between two marginal notes
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These parameters are all lengths and are assigned new values as usual with the setlength
command

14.3. Endnotes
Footnotes
Marginal notes
Scholarly works usually group notes at the end of each chapter or at the end of the documents.
Endnotes
These are called endnotes. Endnotes are not supported in standard LTEX, but they can be created
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The package endnotes (by John Lavagnino) typesets endnotes in a way similar to footnotes. It Title Page
uses an extra external file, with extension .ent, to hold the text of the endnotes. This file can
be deleted after the run since a new version is generated each time.

With this package you can output your footnotes as endnotes by simply giving the command:

renewcommand{footnote}{endnote}

The user interface for endnotes is very similar to the one for footnotes after substituting the
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word “foot” for “end”. The following example shows the principle of the use of endnotes,
where you save text in memory with the endnote command, and then typeset all accumulated
text material at a point in the document controlled by the user.
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This is simple text. This is simple
text.2 This is simple text.3 This is simple text.endnote{The first
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endnote.} This is simple text.endnote{The
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1 The
second endnote.} This is simple
first endnote. text.endnote{The third endnote.}
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3 The third endnote.
theendnotesbigskip
This is some more simple text This is some more simple text
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