[XeTeX] tabular in footnote

[Tobias Schoel]

Can simple aligning in footnotes be achieved with tabbing? Or with 
handish \makebox[length][l]{blablubb}?


On 05.12.2011 14:14, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> 2011/12/5 Petr Tomasek<tomasek at etf.cuni.cz>:
>> 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:
>>
>> Put it in \vbox :-). At least I would do so in plain(Xe)TeX. :-)
>>
> In (Xe)LaTeX it will be even worse because the natural width of a
> \vbox is the line width. If such a \vbox appears in a paragraph just
> after the footnote number, it will result in an overful \hbox.
> Breaking the line between the footnote number and the \vbox is in
> principle possible but the \hbox will be badly underfull and TeX will
> not do it unless \tolerance is set to 10000. The problem is most
> probably caused by the fact that tabular has zero height and positive
> depth, it is probably set as \vtop. If placed inside \vbox, the
> baseline of the \vbox will be aligned with the baseline of tabular,
> thus the \vbox will still have zero height and positive depth (see my
> example in one of my previous posts). Thus \vbox does not improve the
> situation.
>
>>> \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}%
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance,
>>> Dan
>>>
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