name footmisc category Package shortdesc A range of footnote options longdesc A collection of ways to change the typesetting of footnotes; longdesc provides means of changing the layout of the footnotes themselves longdesc (including setting them in "paragraphs" - para option), a way to longdesc number footnotes per page (perpage option), to make footnotes longdesc disappear when an argument moves (stable option) and to deal with longdesc multiple references to footnotes from the same place (multiple longdesc option). Also has a range of techniques for labelling footnotes longdesc with symbols rather than numbers. [description copied from TeX longdesc Catalogue]