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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label footnpp</title>
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<h3>Footnotes numbered “per page”</h3>
<p/>The obvious solution is to make the footnote number reset whenever the
page number is stepped, using the
<a href="FAQ-addtoreset.html">LaTeX internal mechanism</a>. Sadly, the place
in the document where the page number is stepped is unpredictable, not
(“tidily”) at the end of the printed page; so the link only ever
works by luck.
<p/>As a result, resetting footnotes is inevitably a complicated process,
using labels of some sort. It’s nevertheless important, given the
common requirement for footnotes marked by symbols (with painfully
small symbol sets). There are three packages that manage it, one way
or another.
<p/>The <i>perpage</i> package provides a general mechanism for
resetting counters per page, so can obviously be used for this task.
The interface is pretty simple: <code>\</code><code>MakePerPage{footnote}</code> will
do the job. If you want to restart the counter at something other
than 1 (for example to avoid something in the LaTeX footnote symbol
list), you can use: <code>\</code><code>MakePerPage[2]{footnote}</code>. It’s a
first-rate package, small and efficient
<p/>The <i>footmisc</i> package provides a variety of means of
controlling footnote appearance, among them a package option
<code>perpage</code> that adjusts the numbering per page; if you’re
doing something else odd about footnotes, it means you may only need
the one package to achieve your ends.
<p/>The <i>footnpag</i> package also does per-page footnotes (and
nothing else). With the competition from <i>perpage</i>, it’s
probably not particularly useful any more. (Documentation is
<i>footnpag-user.pdf</i> in the distribution.)
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<dt><tt><i>footmisc.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/footmisc.zip">macros/latex/contrib/footmisc</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/footmisc.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/footmisc/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>footnpag.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/footnpag.zip">macros/latex/contrib/footnpag</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/footnpag.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/footnpag/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>perpage.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bigfoot.zip">macros/latex/contrib/bigfoot</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bigfoot.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bigfoot/">browse</a>)
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=footnpp">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=footnpp</a>
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