On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > So to restate what I want: footnotes use numbers and letters starting with
> > "a" on first footnote per verse. Second and later footnotes per verse are
> > not numbered but use next letter alphabetically.
> >
> > Any ideas or example code to do this?
> >
> I have ideas, but nto time to code it up.
> First, look around and see if someone have done this already.
> If not:
> 1. decide on how you number those verses. An enumeration
> seems to fit better than "modified subsection", but use whatever you like.
That makes sense.
> 2. Set up the footnote counter to be reset when the enumeration/subsection
> counter increments.
I found the footmisc package "perpage" option, the footnpag package and
the perpage packages which can give me some ideas. But that seems to
advanced as it has to keep track of page numbering.
So I tried:
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But got:
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LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}
I saw some examples for lyx in preamble but got same error when I tried:
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or
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Any ideas on how to do this?
> 3. print the enum/subsec counter along with the footnote
> counter
> to get 1b, 3a, ...
That seems easy like:
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\thesection.\alph{footnote}}
But that makes my footnote in the text like 1.0.a and the footnote at
bottom like "1.0.a" (the section is 1. without any "0.".
So I tried adding:
\renewcommand{\thefootnotemark}{\alph{footnote}}
But that change both to just "a".
I want "a" in the body of the text and "1a" in footnotes at bottom.
Also since I am trying enumerate I am not sure how to use it like my
examples above instead of \thesection.
>
> > If that is too hard, then I'd like to just use letters "a" ... "z" for my
> > footnotes. (Hopefully, I don't have more than 26.)
> >
> > I read that \footnote[num]{Text here.} only takes a number for [num].
> >
> Now this is much easier. The footnote _counter_ is numeric always,
> but latex have provisions for printing it either as
> ordinary numbers, roman numbers, a to z or A to Z. Any latex
> book should tell you how to change the appearance. There are also
> various packages for styling footnotes.
I figured that out after doing a lot more reading. In my preamble:
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\alph{footnote}}
I will use that until I figure out my original plan.
> Search the net for tips - and if you want to do some latex trickery from
> time to time, get or borrow one of the recommended latex books.
Thanks for your suggestions.
Also thank you to JMarc: I started reading the ledmac documentation. It is
long!
Jeremy C. Reed
