[Docutils-develop] [docutils:patches] #182 An implementation of --latex-footnotes

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- **status**: open --> open-accepted
- **Comment**:

The patch is commited in [r10314]. The commits up to [r10322] take care of 99% of the remaining 1% problematic cases and document the changes and limitations.

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**[patches:#182] An implementation of --latex-footnotes**

**Status:** open-accepted
**Group:** None
**Created:** Fri Jun 18, 2021 11:39 PM UTC by John Thorvald Wodder II
**Last Updated:** Sat Jun 26, 2021 10:28 PM UTC
**Owner:** nobody
**Attachments:**

- [latex-footnotes.patch](https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/patches/182/attachment/latex-footnotes.patch) (9.4 kB; application/octet-stream)

Attached is a patch that implements the `--latex-footnotes` option for 99% of use cases.  I don't know whether you'd find it satisfactory enough to accept, but I thought I'd at least try.

Shortcomings of this implementation:

- Footnotes aren't hyperlinked back to their references.  I am not aware of a way to solve this without basically reimplemeting docutils-footnotes.

- Recursive footnotes are not supported and will cause a recursion error.  Support would require tracking and referencing (à la <https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/23158/>) the number that LaTeX assigns to each footnote, which normally resets on chapters and would be broken by packages like footmisc and perpage.

- If the same footnote is referenced multiple times, it will be treated as a new footnote each time.  I believe this has the same solution as the above.

- If a footnote contains two or more nested footnotes, the numbering will be messed up; see <https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/38643/> for a way to address this.

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