The memoir class - The UK TeX Archive

TwelvePage notesThe standard classes provide the \footnote command for notes at the bottom of the page.The class provides several styles of footnotes and you can also have several series of footnotesfor when the material gets complicated. The normal \marginpar command putsnotes into the margin, which may float around a little if there are other \marginpars onthe page. The class additionally supplies commands for fixed marginal notes and sidebars.12.1 FOOTNOTESA footnote can be considered to be a special kind of float that is put at the bottom of a page.\footnote[〈num〉]{〈text〉}In the main text, the \footnote command puts a marker at the point where it is called, andputs the 〈text〉, preceded by the same mark, at the bottom of the page. If the optional 〈num〉is used then its value is used for the mark, otherwise the footnote counter is stepped andprovides the mark’s value. The \footnote command should be used in paragraph modewhere it puts the note at the bottom of the page, or in a minipage where it puts the note atthe end of the minipage. Results are likely to be peculiar if it is used anywhere else (likein a tabular).\footnotemark[〈num〉]\footnotetext[〈num〉]{〈text〉}You can use \footnotemark to put a marker in the main text; the value is determinedjust like that for \footnote. Footnote text can be put at the bottom of the page via\footnotetext; if the optional 〈num〉 is given it is used as the mark’s value, otherwisethe value of the footnote counter is used. It may be helpful, but completely untrue, tothink of \footnote being defined like:\newcommand{\footnote}[1]{\footnotemark\footnotetext{#1}}In any event, you can use a combination of \footnotemark and \footnotetext to dofootnoting where LaTeX would normally get upset.\footref{〈label〉}On occasions it may be desireable to make more than one reference to the text of a footnote.This can be done by putting a \label in the footnote and then using \footref to refer tothe label; this prints the footnote mark. For example:231Chapter last updated 2013/05/02 (revision 454)