CTAN has a new package: ftnxtra

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This should be at your local mirror within a day.

Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: ftnxtra
Version number: 0.1
Author's name: Vafa Khalighi
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/ftnxtra
Summary description: fixes the issue of standard LaTeX footnote
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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This package fixes the isuue of footnote inside \caption{},
tabular environment and \section{} like (\chapter{}, \part{}, \subsection{} 
and etc) commands.
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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ftnxtra
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ftnxtra
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .