title: paracol and footnote placing in Latex
body: <p>For my current project I need two text lined up in two column. The idea is that one column shows the original language and the second column its translation, neatly lined up line by line. The package paracol does what I want except for one thing: footnote placement.</p>
  
  <p>If one of the columns has a footnote and the other hasn't, the lines of the original and the translation do not stay together. The footnote disrupts the lining up of lines.</p>
  
  <p>This is an example in which you can see that "some other text that should be next to the line in the left column" is not lined up with the lines of the original. All because of the footnote.</p>
  
  <pre><code>\documentclass[twoside,a4paper,11pt]{book}
  \usepackage{paracol}
  \usepackage{lipsum}
  \begin{document}
  \begin{paracol}{2}
  \lipsum[1-2]
  \switchcolumn
  \lipsum[1-2]
  \switchcolumn
  text with footnote\footnote{the footnote}
  
  and some other text
  
  \switchcolumn
  the translation without footnote
  
  some other text that should be next to the line in the left column
  
  \end{paracol}
  \end{document}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As you can see, the footnote disrupts the alignment of lines. How to remedy this?</p>