Re: resetting footnote counter

[Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>]

Have you tried to use mkiv for your document.

Wolfgang


Robert Zydenbos schrieb am 09.08.18 um 14:49:
> tex.stackexchange.com has page titled “How to manually reset the footnote numbering in ConTeXt?” (https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/359702/how-to-manually-reset-the-footnote-numbering-in-context), where exactly the same question was asked:
>
> ---begin quote---
> “I have a document with many footnotes, like this:
>
> This is some text\footnote{This is a footnote}.
> This is some more text\footnote{This is another footnote}.
> This is yet another text\footnote{This is some more footnote text}.
> This produces footnotes numbered 1, 2, 3, etc.
>
> I need to manually reset the footnote number back to 1. E.g.:
>
> This is some text\footnote{This is a footnote}.
> This is some more text\footnote{This is another footnote}.
> \resetfootnote
> This is yet another text\footnote{This is some more footnote text}.
>
> This should produce footnotes numbered 1, 2, then 1 again.”)
> ---end quote---
>
> But no conclusive answer was found. The questioner then said: “I tried changing way=bypage and way=bysection, but it does not get the correct results, which is to have the numbers reset each time \placefootnotes is called. As bypage and bysection both don't do that, I need to be able to manually adjust the numbering.”
>
> I have tried ‘\resetcounter [footnote]’ (a suggested solution on that web page), but it does not work (at least not in MkII+XeTeX). ‘\setupcounter [footnote] [0]’ (also suggested on that web page) is rejected as an error.
>
> Robert
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