FootNote list isn't displayed when footnote is inside a table

[Andrew Schulman]

I have a wiki page with one footnote, which is located inside of a table cell. Further down I add the [[FootNote]] macro.

The footnote reference (the number 1) is displayed inside the table cell. But the footnote text is never shown, no matter where I put the [[FootNote]] macro.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Could you post some example markup that will help with reproducing the issue on my end? Thanks.

[jens.troeger@…]

I have the same issue, would be great to have this fixed (soon)!

{{{#!td valign=top
This is some table cell text.[[FootNote(And a footnote.)]]
}}}

I have multiple cells in my table, some of which use that footnote macro. All are numerated with 1. and none shows up in the actual footnote collection.

[Ryan J Ollos]

I suspect that Trac needs to have the capability to expand a macro inside of a table cell. If you cannot put any other macros inside a table cell and see them expanded, then this is probably the case, and it would therefore be an issue that needs to be handled in the Trac core and can't be dealt with here.

I don't intend to invest much more time on this macro. Future effort would go towards ​trac:#9037.

[jens.troeger@…]

I tired the [[Color(red,This has a red background)]] macro and it worked just fine in a td.

I'm not too hung up on that particular FootNote macro. If there is an alternative footnote solution, I'd happily use that one. But for the time being, this macro seems to be the only way?

[Ryan J Ollos]

Okay, I understand the issue now. It is a duplicate of #9211 and I'll post a patch in that ticket.

[jens.troeger@…]

Since this footnote macro will be replaced by another Trac feature, what's the time line on that new feature? I.e. when can I expect this to work and be usable?

[Ryan J Ollos]

It is unscheduled. Unless someone else decides to implement it, I would guess that it will be 6-12 months before I do any work on it.

[Ryan J Ollos]

Did you have a chance to test the patch in #9211?

[anonymous]

Tested, and works! Thanks.

Feel free to close this bug whenever the patch is committed.

[Andrew Schulman]

(comment:9 was mine, I hadn't logged in yet)