\
footnotemark
to signify the repeats:
… which is very easy, since we know there will only ever be a footnote number 1. A similar technique can be used once the footnotes are stable, reusing the number that LaTeX has allocated. This can be tiresome, though, as any change of typesetting could change the relationships of footnote and repeat: labelling is inevitably better. Simple hand-labelling of footnotes is possible, using a counter dedicated to the job:...\footnote{Repeating note} ... ...\footnotemark[1]
but this is somewhat tedious. LaTeX’s labelling mechanism can be summoned to our aid, but there are ugly error messages before the\newcounter{fnnumber} ... ...\footnote{Text to repeat}% \setcounter{fnnumber}{\thefootnote}% ... ...\footnotemark[\thefnnumber]
\
ref
is resolved on a second run through LaTeX:
Alternatively, one may use the...\footnote{Text to repeat\label{fn:repeat}} ... ...\footnotemark[\ref{fn:repeat}]
\
footref
command, which has the
advantage of working even when the footnote mark isn’t expressed as a
number. The command is defined in the footmisc package and
in the memoir class (at least); \
footref
reduces the above
example to:
This is the cleanest simple way of doing the job. Note that the...\footnote{Text to repeat\label{fn:repeat}} ... ...\footref{fn:repeat}
\
label
command must be inside the argument of
\
footnote
.
The fixfoot package takes away some of the pain of the
matter: you declare footnotes you’re going to reuse, typically in the
preamble of your document, using a \
DeclareFixedFoot
command, and
then use the command you’ve ‘declared’ in the body of the document:
The package ensures that the repeated text appears at most once per page: it will usually take more than one run of LaTeX to get rid of the repeats.\DeclareFixedFootnote{\rep}{Text to repeat} ... ...\rep{} ...\rep{}
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