Footnote inside a figure caption, with pdf output

[antoine-gallix]

Footnote seems not to work when inside a caption.

input file:input.mmd

![picture[^note] caption][picture]

[picture]: image.png

[^note]: note about the caption

command:

pandoc input.mmd -o output.pdf

error message:

pandoc: Error producing PDF from TeX source.
! Argument of \Hy@tempa has an extra }.
<inserted text> 
                \par 
l.74 ...\footnote{note about the caption} caption}

[mpickering]

Footnotes in captions are very difficult to get correct in LaTeX. I suggest
you try to avoid placing footnotes in captions - you can try putting it
directly after the figure or where maybe where you refer to the figure
would be appropiate.

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ftncapt

On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 5:28 PM, antoine-gallix [email protected]
wrote:

Footnote seems not to work when inside a caption.

input file:
---input.mmd
[image: picture¹ caption] http://image.png

command:
pandoc input.mmd -o output.pdf

error message:
pandoc: Error producing PDF from TeX source.
! Argument of \Hy@tempa has an extra }.

\par
l.74 ...\footnote{note about the caption} caption}

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#1506.

Footnotes

1. note about the caption ↩

[antoine-gallix]

Ok, then if it's a common latex problem, should I close the issue or leave it like this?

[jgm]

It might be worth fiddling to see if we can get something like this latex output when a caption includes a footnote:

\begin{figure}
...
\caption[caption without footnote, for lof]{caption with footnote replaced by\footnotemark}
\end{figure}
\footnotetext{The footnote}