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How do I cancel the footnote separator line in minipages only? I would also like to increase the indent of footnotes in minipages only. This is handy after tables, for instance.

Ideally, I would use the footmisc package with the norule option, but this affects the entire document, and not only the minipage environments.

Thomas F. Sturm
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Ariel
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One solution for canceling the separator is to use the footmisc package with the splitrule option, and redefine the \mpfootnoterule and \splitfootnoterule commands as following: 

\usepackage[splitrule]{footmisc}
\renewcommand{\mpfootnoterule}{}
\let\splitfootnoterule\footnoterule

But appart from being a quite ugly workaround, it doesn't solve the problem of the indentation.

Ariel
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In latex.ltx, the \footnoterule is called at the end of the minipage environment when there are footnotes. So first I redefine the \endminipage command to omit the \footnoterule.

In article.cls, the indentation is produced by the \@makefntext command. This same command is called for both main-text and minipage footnotes. So we have to redefine the \mpfootnotetext command so that when it is called, it then redefines \@makefntext.

This might be dangerous, but it seems to work. I welcome feedback from those more knowledgable.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newlength{\mpparindent}
\setlength{\mpparindent}{0.5in}

\let\oldendminipage\endminipage
\def\endminipage{\let\footnoterule\relax\oldendminipage}

\makeatletter
\let\@oldmpfootnotetext\@mpfootnotetext
\def\@mpfootnotetext#1{%
    \renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{%
        \hspace*{\mpparindent}
        \parindent\mpparindent
        \noindent
        \hb@xt@1.8em{\hss\@makefnmark}#1}
    \@oldmpfootnotetext{#1}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
Table~\ref{table} shows a palindrome.\footnote{You can use it to make a magic square.}

\begin{table}
\caption{Sator arepo}
\label{table}
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
Sator arepo tenet opera rotas.\footnote{This is a palindrome.}
\end{minipage}
\end{table}

\lipsum[2]
\end{document}

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musarithmia
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