Re: Multiple references to a footnote in texi sources

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> But such footnotes look strange when referenced sequentially - texinfo
>> displays two identical footnotes one after another.
>
> In my book, this means a footnote is a wrong means to handle these
> cases.  If you are talking about a reference to book or a URL, there
> are other ways of doing that which don't use @footnote.  I'm guessing
> people think they should use @footnote because the have something like
> footnote-mode in mind.  But that's superficial similarity, based on
> the presence of the same word and on nothing else.

Note that LaTeX does support multiple footnote references and such
footnote referencing style is a common practice in some research journals.

Also, I described my use case, which is not book referencing.

I do not agree that "multiple references" is a universally wrong idea.

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