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From: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: non-numerical footnote marking
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Date: 23 Jul 90 21:12:08 GMT
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In article <9007232104.AA05987@kronos.ads.com>, rar@kronos.ads.com (Bob Riemenschneider) writes...
)=)   From: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.)
)=)   Newsgroups: comp.text.tex

)=)   ... To change the way that footnotes are renumbered, one simply
)=)   redefines \thefootnote: The following will change footnotes to be
)=)   numbered with "footnote symbols":
)=)   \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
)=)   ...

)For a standard "footnote symbol" style, you need 

)	\@addtoreset{footnote}{page}

)as well.  (If you're using letters, you can be a bit more liberal.  But,
)for large documents, you'll have to do something about resetting footnote
)every once in awhile.)

Unfortunately this won't work. Because of the way TeX breaks
pages, chances are you'll get mis-"numbered" footnotes at the
tops of pages (since the number will be assigned before the
"scroll is cut"). The only accurate solution involves a two-pass
algorithim in which on the first pass, LaTeX keeps track of which
footnotes are on which pages and on the second pass makes sure
that footnotes are numbered correctly for that page.

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