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

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Hi,

David Goodger:
> 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.

This will happen very seldom, so I propose the following solution:

Emit a LaTeX 

\footnote{\label{<FOOTNOTE_IDENTIFIER>}FOOTNOTE_TEXT} 

macro at the first encountered reference.  At the second, third and so on
reference emit a LaTeX

\footnote{see footnote \ref{FOOTNOTE_IDENTIFIER} on 
page \pagref{FOOTNOTE_IDENTIFIER}.}

This is not perfect but would deal with the situation in a reasonable way.

The LaTeX writer should also pay attention to the fact, that
standard LaTeX does not allow to construct footnotes inside tabular
material.  I advise to use the tabularx environment and to add a
\usepackage{tabularx} into the header section.  This shouldn't be a
problem, since tabularx may be considered as Standard LaTeX today:
It was even documented in LaTeX companion from 1994.

Using the LaTeX writer and pdflatex would offer a decent
reST to PDF converter.

Regards, Peter
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