Text Formatting ⇒ Footnotes and chapters

[Leo__]

Hello,

I would like to know how to reset the footnotes counter after an unnumbered chapter.

Here is a minimal not-yet working example (I am actually using three different sets of footnotes with the package bigfoot but I do not think that this should make a difference, since I would like all of them to be reset):

\documentclass[a4paper]{book}

\begin{document}

\chapter{First chapter}

This is the first chapter\footnote{This is ok.}. This is a second sentence\footnote{This is the second footnote.}.

\chapter{Second chapter}

This is the first chapter\footnote{This is ok.}. This is a second sentence\footnote{This is the second footnote.} of the second chapter.

\chapter*{Unnumbered chapter}

Check for yourself\footnote{This is a new footnote. I would like it to start at one.}.

\end{document}

[Bartman]

Your example does not show how you work with at least one additional set of footnotes.

Suppose it was defined

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\DeclareNewFootnote{R}[Roman]

then you can try

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\usepackage{etoolbox}

\makeatletter
\pretocmd{\@schapter}{\setcounter{footnote}{0}}{}{}
\pretocmd{\@schapter}{\setcounter{footnoteR}{0}}{}{}
\makeatother

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That also seems to work

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\let\oldchapter\chapter
\def\chapter{%
  \setcounter{footnote}{0}%
  \setcounter{footnoteR}{0}%
  \oldchapter
}

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[Leo__]

Many thanks. This worked for me.