General ⇒ Double footnotes

[n070161]

Hi everybody,

I'd like to make a 'double footnote', that is, two footnote numbers in diferentent positions (on the same paragraph and page) linked to the same text. Someone has any idea of how can I get it?

Thank you!

[frabjous]

The fixfoot package comes close to offering what you would want. You'd get the same footnote number, however, at the different locations. (What would be the reason for using different numbers, and what number would appear on the bottom otherwise?)

[n070161]

Hi again,

I was thinking of the two footnote numbers seppared by a comma (,), but your solution is even better

Thank you very much

[localghost]

[…] I was thinking of the two footnote numbers seppared by a comma (,) […]

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\usepackage[multiple]{footmisc}

Best regards
Thorsten

[frabjous]

[…] I was thinking of the two footnote numbers seppared by a comma (,) […]

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\usepackage[multiple]{footmisc}

Best regards
Thorsten

No, I don't think that's what he's after. The footmisc package would allow you to put two distinct footnotes in the same spot. Unless I misunderstood, n070161 wants the same footnote in two different spots. The two numbers separated by a comma were to go in the footnote itself, not in the reference to the footnote, which is what footmisc offers.

[ExecutorElassus]

There's another, slightly easier way to get what you're after-- provided that the two footnotes you use can have the same number. If that's the case (and why do you want to give the same footnote two different numbers anyway?), there's actually a very handy trick that lets you mess around with footnotes quite a bit in your document.
1) Take the footnote in question, and add a label to it, probably at the beginning. Name it something memorable (Lyx is usually helpful with this).
2) Wherever you want to add duplicate footnotes, insert a superscript style.
3) in the elevated text, insert a cross-reference, and select the label you made in 1).

You can also do this inside footnote environments, and arbitrarily throughout the document. If you set continuous numbering in your preamble, you can easily insert footnote references pointing to actual footnotes hundreds of pages later, or prior.
I'm unsure which packages you will need for all this. I have footmisc, bigfoot, fancyhdr, and KOMAScript set, the last of which pulls in a bunch of packages on its own.

Enjoy,

EE

[cgnieder]

There's another, slightly easier way to get what you're after-- provided that the two footnotes you use can have the same number. If that's the case (and why do you want to give the same footnote two different numbers anyway?), there's actually a very handy trick that lets you mess around with footnotes quite a bit in your document.
1) Take the footnote in question, and add a label to it, probably at the beginning. Name it something memorable (Lyx is usually helpful with this).
2) Wherever you want to add duplicate footnotes, insert a superscript style.
3) in the elevated text, insert a cross-reference, and select the label you made in 1).

This is exactly what the \footref command is for that both the KOMA-Script classes and the memoir class provide. Other classes can use it, too, by loading the scrextend package:

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\documentclass{scrartcl}
\begin{document}

Company SplishSplash\footnote{This is a registered trade name.
All rights are reserved.\label{fn:refnote}}
produces not only SplishPlump\footref{fn:refnote}
but also SplishPlash\footref{fn:refnote}.

\end{document}

What fixfoot provides additionally is that the footnote in question is repeated if the next call falls on a different page so that readers don't have to go back to actually read the footnote text.

Regards