Wrong order of footnote numbers in tables with afterpage

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 5/25/21 6:46 AM, _johnny7_ger at web.de wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have several multi-page tables in my document. With the package
> afterpage it is convenient to force them to always begin on a new page
> which works well. I also want to use footnotes in those tables - I am
> aware that this is fragile - but this also works as expected. There is
> one little flaw, however, the footnote numbering does not correspond
> anymore to their actual order.
>
> In LyX I have:
> Footnote 1
> (afterpage:) Table with Footnote 2
> Footnote 3
>
> In the output I have:
> Footnote 1
> Table with Footnote 3
> Footnote 2
>
> That is probably because Footnote 3 is in a paragraph that begins before
> the table. Is there any way to correct this numbering, even if manually
> for each case?

You'd have to manually reset the footnote numbers. You can do this with:

\setcounter{footnote}{3}

or whatever. You'll need to restore it to whatever's right also after
the last one.

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