Emanuele Gissi & Alessia Franceschi wrote: > I am tring to put a footnote at the end of a label in a "description" > environment. This does not work properly: either the footnotes shows but there > is a blank space between the label and the indice or the indice is well > positioned but the footnote does not show at all... > How to do that in a working way? > > I include a little example. you're wright. the problem is that lyx puts the footnote outside the item-command. it's a question to one of the developers if it's possible that lyx puts footnote, which is behind a label inside the item: \item{my Item\footnote{my footnote}] this is with lyx: \item{my Item]\footnote{my footnote} and latex puts a space between item and footnotemark. look at the attachment, there is the solution for footnotemark and footnotetext. it's the same situation as in tables. Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/voss
#LyX 1.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 2.16 \textclass article \language default \inputencoding latin1 \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize default \spacing single \papersize Default \paperpackage a4 \use_geometry 0 \use_amsmath 0 \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation indent \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \layout Standard This is an example. \layout Description First\SpecialChar ~ label \begin_float footnote \layout Standard This footnote is inserted just after the \begin_inset Quotes eld \end_inset First\SpecialChar ~ tag \begin_inset Quotes erd \end_inset item. I don't like the space after the tag. \end_float I love LyX. \layout Description Second\SpecialChar ~ label \latex latex \backslash footnotemark \latex default This footnote shows its label, but doesn't show herself at the bottom. There is also another problem: how to make footnotes longer than one line (words are connected with protected spaces)? \latex latex \backslash footnotetext{This\SpecialChar ~ footnote\SpecialChar ~ is\SpecialChar ~ inserted\SpecialChar ~ as\SpecialChar ~ ERT and this footnote is much more than one line when i write some nonsense so that this is nonsense} \newline \backslash item[my Item \backslash footnote{myfootnote}] \latex default bla bla bla \layout Description Third\SpecialChar ~ label Thank you for your help! \layout Standard \the_end