Sunday, 26 May 2013

Float in footnotes

Float in footnotes

The question about adding footnotes in floats or captions of these has been asked and debated often.
What is about floats in footnotes?
I can't seem to get a floating figure environment within a footnote. Here is an example:
\documentclass[
DIV10,
a4paper,
pagesize,
english,
]{scrartcl} %scrreprt, scrartcl
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\section{``Floating'' figure in a footnote}

\blindtext\footnote{ %
\begin{figure}[htbp] %
\centering %
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{demo}\caption{\dots and a caption} %
\label{fig:demo} %
\end{figure}} %
\par
\blindtext

\end{document}
Further is it typographically accepted to have a graphic in a footnote, if the only the text in the footnote refers to this figure? Nothing else in the whole document.

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