The dagger in this case is to the note on the far right by. (the numbers are confusing because i use superscripted numbers for citations. ) Heres an example from 1582, though the practice is much older than this: As mentioned in note \ref{footnote_1}. \begin{table} \begin{center} \begin{footnotesize} \begin{tabular. For example, if is constructed like this blah blah blah blah\footnote{blah blah \label{footnote_1}} would you refer to it using this line? How do i refer to a footnote? How can i make latex use symbols (*, ā , ā”, and so on) instead of numbers to mark footnotes? Ā· the dagger, which sometimes looks like a cross, has long been used to as a foot- or sidenote. \begin {figure} [!ht] \caption {a figure caption\footnote. Heres a link to the page on google books as you can see, the dagger is used (here) at a secondary level from the main set of glosses, which used suprascript letters. Ā· maybe this is an easy one, but i struggled with this now too long :) i want to have a footnote in a caption of a figure, see the example. I have some table like the following one and want to write some configuration using Ā“footnoteĀ“.