Re: [O] How to get 'repeating footnotes' please?

[Berry, Charles]

> On Apr 13, 2018, at 3:40 AM, Sharon Kimble <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> "Berry, Charles" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>>> On Apr 10, 2018, at 5:42 AM, Sharon Kimble <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Samuel Wales <address@hidden> writes:
>>> 
>>>> [fn:apples: ...]
>>>> 
>>>> [fn:apples]
>>> 
>>> I'm sorry Samuel, but it seems like you haven't read all of my initial
>>> question, where I stated 'All my footnotes are 4 digits like
>>> '[fn:0010]'.' I'm not going to change my habits of using numerical
>>> footnotes that have been in documents for over ten years now to alpha
>>> footnotes. Sorry, its just not going to happen!
>>> 
>>> But I am open to any other suggestions which involve numerical
>>> footnotes?
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Numerical footnotes work the same as alpha AFAICS. So, Samuel's suggestion 
>> works, but I think you
>> may be asking a question about repeating the *text* of a footnote rather 
>> than merely referencing it
>> from a different location. If so, there may be a latex solution for you. 
>> Perhaps this helps:
>> 
>>      http://www.tex.ac.uk/FAQ-repfootnote.html
>> 
>> and the fixfoot package is what you need.
>> ??
>> 
>> If not maybe you can elaborate on what the desired latex should be.
> 
> Thanks Chuck.
> 
> Yes it is 'repeating text' that I want in my reused footnotes.
> 
> The problem with the latex solutions that you've proposed is that they
> rely on what I call 'static footnotes' meaning that the footnote number
> always stays the same, whereas org-mode uses 'dynamic footnotes' meaning
> that if you insert one between 3 and 4 they are automatically renumbered
> to "3 and new one 4 and 5".
> 
> When you're writing a long document, be it a book or an article or even
> a letter and you use footnotes, its very handy for them to be
> recalibrated every time that you use or insert a footnote. This
> recalibration or automatic renumbering is a godsend I've found, and is
> one of the strengths of org-mode, especially when you're memory is
> becoming increasingly problematic and you keep forgetting what you want
> to say.
> 
> And that's why I'm trying to get repeat text in org-modes dynamic
> footnotes. In every experiment that I've made using [fn:0001] as my
> reference point it has failed, seemingly due to an inability to graft
> latex commands into an org-mode dynamic footnote, which is then exported
> and published as an latexed PDF.


Org has no concept of a `page', which is required to handle repetition on 
subsequent pages. 

I think you are stuck in needing to find a LaTeX solution.  And then look at 
how you marry it to org.

HTH,

Chuck