> On Jan 24, 2018, at 8:30 PM, Matthew Butterick wrote:
>
> FWIW this is the same as `(length (member name fn-names))` if you avoid
> putting duplicates in `fn-names` to begin with. `member` returns the tail of
> the list beginning with the matching item. So in this case,
Wow! I suspected there was a more elegant/functional/concise approach that
what I’d come up with, but yowsers. I have a lot to learn. (Don’t get me
wrong, this is helpful and much appreciated.)
> I was drawn to your comment in the article:
>
*> "The output for footnotes (given my