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multiple identical footnote refs on same page

BrianJ
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multiple identical footnote refs on same page

We have footnotes set up with Styler, but we are running into problems
where we have multiple references to a footnote on the same page. In
these cases, the footnote gets output the same number of times it is
referenced on the page. Is there a way to only output the reference
once per page?

Many thanks,
Brian Jensen
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I am not using styler, but in FOSI we have it set up so that the 1st occurrence of the footnote appears like this:

<footnote footnote-symbol="1asterisk" id="m123n456">
<para>Footnote Text</para>
</footnote>

If in the same document the same footnote text is used, we use <footnoteref linkend="m123n456"> instead of the whole footnote. This footnote ref is then replaced witha symbol that matches the symbol specified by the linkend id.

The resulting output is 1 occurrence of the footnote at the bottom of each page the footnote or footnoteref appears on.

Ashley


In Reply to Brian Jensen:

We have footnotes set up with Styler, but we are running into problems
where we have multiple references to a footnote on the same page. In
these cases, the footnote gets output the same number of times it is
referenced on the page. Is there a way to only output the reference
once per page?

Many thanks,
Brian Jensen
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