[texhax] how to reset the footnote counter within subfootnotes and change the number style to \Alph for subfootnotes only

[Paul Isambert]

Replace

\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\Alph{footnote}}%

by

\gdef\thefootnote{\Alph{footnote}}%

The problem is you make your redefinition in a group, and so outside the 
old definition still holds.
Strange, I thought LaTeX's \newcommand and friends were global.

Paul



George Colpitts a écrit :
> Here is my attempt to reset the footnote counter within subfootnotes
> with number style \Alph, i.e I want footnote numbers to proceed
> consecutively in the body of the text and subfootnotes to be indicated
> by upper case letters starting from A for each footnote:
>
> \documentclass[12pt]{book}
>
>
> %added to handle footnotes within footnotes and renumber
> %starting with 0 in the subfootnote
> \newcounter{myfootnotecounter}
>
> \newcommand{\saveFootnoteCounterStartWithAlph}{%
> \setcounter{myfootnotecounter}{\value{footnote}}%
> \setcounter{footnote}{0}%
> \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\Alph{footnote}}%
> }
>
> \newcommand{\restoreFootnoteCounter}{%
> \renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\arabic{footnote}}%
> \setcounter{footnote}{\value{myfootnotecounter}}%
> }
>
> \begin{document}
>
>
> before the war\footnote{outer
> footnote\saveFootnoteCounterStartWithAlph\footnotemark
> here}\footnotetext{nested footnote}
> after more\restoreFootnoteCounter{}\footnote{resume normal} stuff
>
> \end{document}
>
> This almost works but I get (using ^m to indicate footnote marker m):
>
>
> before the war^1 after more^2 stuff
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ^1outer footnote^Ahere
> ^1nested footnote
> ^2resume normal
>
>
> but what I want is:
>
> before the war^1 after more^2 stuff
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ^1outer footnote^Ahere
> ^Anested footnote
> ^2resume normal
>
>
> i.e. the subnote footmarker should be A both where a footnote is
> indicated and preceding the text of the subfootnote
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Regards
> George
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