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From: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen)
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Subject: Re: LaTeX - how to detect a new page (Re: symbol footnotes)
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.193110.18010@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 91 19:31:10 GMT
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In-Reply-To: Damian.Cugley@prg.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley)

In article <DAMIAN.CUGLEY.91Feb13143353@msc9.prg.ox.ac.uk>, Damian.Cugley@prg (Damian Cugley) writes:
>[How to reset the footnote counter for each page in LaTeX?]
>It can't be done.  

Well, it can, but you'll have to use a two-pass algorithm (which is what
LaTeX uses for other things, anyway, e.g., forward references for figures
and tables, and building the table of contents).

The first pass records the page number of each footnote, and the second
pass looks at those numbers and chooses which symbol to use.