Re: Footnotes in footnotes

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:46 PM 1/26/01 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>I wrote:
>> >As of subject. I browsed the past messages, and I've seen that Hans Hagen
>> was working on it ... so, is it somewhat possible? (maybe
>> >a decoupling of the command like \footnotemark/footnotetext in LaTeX?)
>>
>Hans wrote:
>> what exactly do you want to achieve? There is \note[ref] to refer to a
>> (previous) footnote.
>
>I want this:
>
>\starttext
>
>So this is what I want\footnote{I mean, this is a footnote\footnote{a
footnote
>is text put at the end of the page}, and there should be a footnote within
this
>footnote}.
>
>\stoptext
>
>The footnote created within the footnote gets the correct number (one more
than
>the top-level one), the numbers are increased (the next footnote in the
text is
>numbered one more than the nested footnote), but the nested footnote text
>doesn't appear (it should appear as a regular footnote text  right after the
>top-level-footnote-text).
>
>Hope I made myself clear.

Sure, that's one can be solved with one line [just did it]. 

Till the next update use: 

\postponefootnotes\footnote 

in the inner note; this should work ok, although i would certainly try to
avoid nested notes -) 

Hans
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