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On Dec 17, 2008, at 6:18 PM, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:

> Paul R <paul.r.ml@gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
>> Can others express their views on pros and cons of the two following
>> usages :
>>
>> * Usage 1, anonymous footnotes
>>
>> Karate or karate-do is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands
>> from indigenous fighting methods and Chinese kenp=C5=8D[fn:: Kenpo is =
the
>> name of several martial arts].
>
> [...]
>
> And then we will have that one feature request to cross reference a
> previous footnote!  :-)  In the above case, how would a person go
> about asking someone to refer to an earlier footnote?
>
>> * Usage 2, keyword named footnotes
>>
>> Karate or karate-do is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands
>> from indigenous fighting methods and Chinese kenp=C5=8D[fn:kenpo]. It =
is
>> primarily a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow =20
>> strikes
>> and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands and ridge-hands.
>>
>> [fn:kenpo] Kenpo is the name of several martial arts
>
> Unless I've got it wrong, wouldn't it be better to do something like
>
> [fn:kenpo { Kenpo is the name of several martial arts}]
> (keep the keyword and definition in one place?)
>
> And all future references go as 'see [fn:kenpo] to understand the
> meaning'.  Presumably when exported, all these keywords stuff
> disappears and are replaced by standard LaTeX style footnote numbers,
> right?
>
> [...]

Hi Sivaram,  I can see how this would be represented in
HTML (just several links to the same footnote), but how
would you represent this in LaTeX?

- Carsten