Re: [MiKTeX] footnote in captions

[Markus K. <mar...@we...>]

Dear Christoph!

At 16:01 18.03.2003 +0100, you wrote:
>I am trying to insert a footnote in a caption of a section. The 
>footnotemark always appears in a new line after the heading and not at the 
>end of the last word of the caption

This works:

\section{foo \protect\footnotemark }
\footnotetext{foo}

LaTeX commands are either robust or fragile. Fragile commands need special 
care if they are part of a moving argument. \section is a moving argument. 
And \footnote is fragile.

You may read this at NASA

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/latex/fragile.html

There is a special Tex-Newsgroup

http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=de.comp.text.tex

A great source of help is the german Latex-FAQ:

http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/html/makros3.html#78

Greets

Markus