LaTeX forum ⇒ General ⇒ alphalph package

[Leo__]

Hello,

I am writing a text with three sets of footnotes and using the alphalph package. Here is a MWE:

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\documentclass[11pt,b5paper]{book}
\usepackage[ruled]{manyfoot}
\newfootnote{A} % Note de l'auteur
\newfootnote{B} % Note de l'editeur (complexe)
\newfootnote{C} % Note de l'editeur (simple}
 
\usepackage{alphalph}
 
\newcounter{footnoteA}
\newcommand{\footnoteA}{%
\stepcounter{footnoteA}%
\Footnotemark\thefootnoteA \FootnotetextA{}}
 
\newcounter{footnoteB}
\newcommand{\footnoteB}{%
\stepcounter{footnoteB}%
\Footnotemark\thefootnoteB \FootnotetextB\thefootnoteB}
\renewcommand{\thefootnoteB}{\alphalph{footnoteB}}
 
\newcounter{footnoteC}
\newcommand{\footnoteC}{%
\stepcounter{footnoteC}%
\Footnotemark\thefootnoteC \FootnotetextC\thefootnoteC}
\renewcommand{\thefootnoteC}{(\roman{footnoteC})}
 
 
\begin{document}
Just a try\footnoteA{Author's note.}. Just a try\footnoteB{Simple editor's note}. Just a try\footnoteC{Complex note.}.
\end{document}

The error message I got is:

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! Missing number, treated as zero.
to be read again> 
                   f
l.68 ...oteA{Author's note.}. Just a try\footnoteB
                                                  {Simple editor's note}. Ju...

I assume that some kind of counter is missing for the footnoteB that relies on the alphalph package that is supposed to create footnotes of the form a,b,...,z, aa,ab, etc.

I also tried \alphalph{value{footnoteB}} instead of \alphalph{footnoteB}. It does not work.

Could anyone help ?

[cgnieder]

The argument is a TeX number. Anything that would be accepted by \number is a valid argument:

• explicite constants,
• macros that expand to a number,
• count registers, LaTeX counter can used via \value, e. g.:
  \alphalph{\value{page}}

This means replace

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\renewcommand{\thefootnoteB}{\alphalph{footnoteB}}

with

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\renewcommand{\thefootnoteB}{\alphalph{\value{footnoteB}}}