Re: [Docutils-develop] Re: Footnotes in LaTeX Writer

[David G. <go...@us...>]

Richard Jones wrote:
> Can't you search the DOM for the footnote body, based on the reference?

In fact, all footnotes are kept track of while processing the document.
``document.footnotes``, ``document.footnote_refs``,
``document.autofootnotes``, etc.  Take a look at docutils/nodes.py, ``class
document``, for details.  Use the "--dump-internals" command-line option to
see what's stored where.

> If not, can you maybe have a simple transform that runs pre-writer that
> replaces footnote ref/footnote with a single footnote node?

I believe the difficulty in TeX is that a footnote is assumed to have only
one reference.  I.e., you can't say [1]_ and then say [1]_ again somewhere
else.  I'll leave it to those with real TeX knowledge (i.e., not me!) to
figure out a solution.

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