On 10/28/2009 05:30 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote:
I tried \footnotemark and \footnotetext, that doesn't work.
Is there a LyX or LaTeX solution to that problem? I'm pretty
sure my old friend will be sorry not to be able to switch to
LyX, which doesn't let you have footnotes in footnotes...
Is this what you mean ?
Nice work, Vincent, but not the kind of thing you'd want to have to do
manually very often!
The best solution to this is to use the bigfoot package, which is
designed for critical editions. Among its many other features is its
ability to do footnotes within footnotes, so long as they are of
different "levels". (E.g., an editor's footnote inside a footnote in the
original.) See the attached, and note what's in the preamble.
It would be fairly easy to write a module for this kind of thing. You
have to be a bit careful how you use it, though, as I don't think we'd
have any way of preventing a B-note inside a B-note, which bigfoot will
not like.
Richard
#LyX 1.6.5svn created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 345
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass paper
\begin_preamble
\usepackage{bigfoot}
\DeclareNewFootnote[para]{default}
\DeclareNewFootnote[para]{B}[alph]
\end_preamble
\use_default_options false
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\font_roman times
\font_sans helvet
\font_typewriter courier
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\font_osf false
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\font_tt_scale 100
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 11
\spacing single
\use_hyperref false
\papersize letterpaper
\use_geometry false
\use_amsmath 1
\use_esint 0
\cite_engine natbib_authoryear
\use_bibtopic false
\paperorientation portrait
\leftmargin 1in
\topmargin 1in
\rightmargin 1in
\bottommargin 1in
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip smallskip
\quotes_language english
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle plain
\tracking_changes false
\output_changes false
\author ""
\author ""
\end_header
\begin_body
\begin_layout Standard
This is text.
\begin_inset Foot
status open
\begin_layout Plain Layout
This is a footnote.
\begin_inset ERT
status open
\begin_layout Plain Layout
\backslash
footnoteB{Hi I'm an embedded footnote.}
\end_layout
\end_inset
\end_layout
\end_inset
Text.
\end_layout
\end_body
\end_document
