Re: REVTeX 4, table* and footnotes

On Mar 19, 12:00 pm, cefstat <cefs...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am using REVTeX 4 for typesetting an article. The format is
twocolumn and I am using the table* environment to obtain a full width
table. In the same table I have one footnote using \footnotemark[] and
\footnotetext[]{}. Unfortunately, the footnote instead of extending to
the whole page width like the table itself, extends only to the width
of one column.

A simple example that exhibits the problem is below:

\documentclass[aps,pra,twocolumn,preprint,tightenlines]{revtex4}

\begin{document}

\begin{table*}
\caption{This is a simple table.}
\begin{ruledtabular}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
Column A & Column B\footnotemark[1] & Column C \\
Column A & Column B & Column C \\
\end{tabular}
\end{ruledtabular}
\footnotetext[1]{This is the first footnote and I am writing a lot
of things
in order to make it long enough to show that it wraps at the end
of the column.}
\end{table*}

\end{document}

I guess that this is a bug. Is this true or I am doing something
wrong?

Best wishes,
Konstantinos

A minipage, perhaps

\documentclass[aps,pra,twocolumn,preprint,tightenlines]{revtex4}

\begin{document}

\begin{table*}
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\caption{This is a simple table.}
\begin{ruledtabular}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
Column A & Column B\footnotemark[1] & Column C \\
Column A & Column B & Column C \\
\end{tabular}
\end{ruledtabular}
\footnotetext[1]{This is the first footnote and I am writing a lot
of things
in order to make it long enough to show that it wraps at the end
of the column.}
\end{minipage}
\end{table*}
\end{document}

Joseph Wright
.

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