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| author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-12-14 00:56:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-12-14 00:56:47 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-repfootnote.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-repfootnote.html index c9a9293690d..3876ced01b2 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-repfootnote.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-repfootnote.html @@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ </head><body> <h3>Footnotes whose texts are identical</h3> <p>If the <em>same</em> footnote turns up at several places within a -document, it's often inappropriate to repeat the footnote in its +document, it’s often inappropriate to repeat the footnote in its entirety over and over again. We can avoid repetition by semi-automatic means, or by simply labelling footnotes that we know -we're going to repeat and then referencing the result. There is no +we’re going to repeat and then referencing the result. There is no completely automatic solution (that detects and suppresses repeats) available. <p>If you know you only have one footnote, which you want to repeat, the @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ solution is simple: merely use the optional argument of ... ...\footnotemark[1] </pre> -</blockquote> +</blockquote><p> ... which is very easy, since we know there will only ever be a footnote number 1. A similar technique can be used once the footnotes are stable, reusing the number that LaTeX has allocated. This can @@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ to the job: ... ...\footnotemark[\thefnnumber] </pre> -</blockquote> -but this is somewhat tedious. LaTeX's labelling mechanism can be +</blockquote><p> +but this is somewhat tedious. LaTeX’s labelling mechanism can be summoned to our aid, but there are ugly error messages before the <code>\</code><code>ref</code> is resolved on a second run through LaTeX: <blockquote> @@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ summoned to our aid, but there are ugly error messages before the ... ...\footnotemark[\ref{fn:repeat}] </pre> -</blockquote> +</blockquote><p> Alternatively, one may use the <code>\</code><code>footref</code> command, which has the -advantage of working even when the footnote mark isn't expressed as a +advantage of working even when the footnote mark isn’t expressed as a number. The command is defined in the <i>footmisc</i> package and in the <i>memoir</i> class (at least); <code>\</code><code>footref</code> reduces the above example to: @@ -57,14 +57,14 @@ example to: ... ...\footref{fn:repeat} </pre> -</blockquote> +</blockquote><p> This is the cleanest simple way of doing the job. Note that the <code>\</code><code>label</code> command <em>must</em> be inside the argument of <code>\</code><code>footnote</code>. <p>The <i>fixfoot</i> package takes away some of the pain of the -matter: you declare footnotes you're going to reuse, typically in the +matter: you declare footnotes you’re going to reuse, typically in the preamble of your document, using a <code>\</code><code>DeclareFixedFoot</code> command, and -then use the command you've 'declared' in the body of the document: +then use the command you’ve ‘declared’ in the body of the document: <blockquote> <pre> \DeclareFixedFootnote{\rep}{Text to repeat} @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ then use the command you've 'declared' in the body of the document: ...\rep{} ...\rep{} </pre> -</blockquote> +</blockquote><p> The package ensures that the repeated text appears at most once per page: it will usually take more than one run of LaTeX to get rid of the repeats. |