[texhax] can't produce a footnote within a footnote using the manyfoot package in Latex

[George Colpitts]

Thanks Uwe. Between Google search and "The Latex Companion Book" Ch. 3
I figured it out. It turns out I  don't need the manyfoot package.
Google Search pointed me at: www.latex-project.org/guides/tlc2-ch3.pdf

In Sec. 3.2.1 the authors write

LaTEX does not allow you to use a \footnote inside another \footnote
command, as is common in some disciplines. You can, however, use the
\footnotemark command inside the first footnote and then put the text of the
footnote’s footnote as the argument of a \footnotetext command.

then they given an example of text with a footnote where the footnote
has a footnote

Some\footnote{A sample\footnotemark{}
footnote.}\footnotetext{A subfootnote.}
text and some more text.

Sorry to bother everybody. Hopefully this will be of use to others.
Thanks
George

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Uwe Lueck <uwe.lueck at web.de> wrote:
>
> [subject repeated:] can't produce a footnote within a footnote using the manyfoot package in Latex
>
> No surprise!
>
> (manyfoot uses the standard TeX approach of producing footnotes which does not support nesting footnotes. my answer is a sociological experiment as well ...)
>
> However,
>
>    http://ctan.org/pkg/bigfoot
>
> includes (as I understand the description) an attempt at nesting footnotes. (Yet I do not know how to use it.)
>
> HTH -- Uwe.
>
> George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com> wortete at 30.04.2010 20:26:00:
> >Here is my attempt to produce a footnote within a footnote using the
> >manyfoot package in Latex:
> >
> >\documentclass[12pt]{book}
> >
> >\usepackage{manyfoot}
> >\DeclareNewFootnote{A}[Alph]
> >
> >\begin{document}
> >
> >
> >before the war\footnote{outer footnote\footnoteA{nested footnote}}
> > after
> >\end{document}
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >However I only I get one footnote, numbered with a superscript 1 and
> >at the end of it a superscript A promising but not delivering the
> >nested footnote:
> >
> >1 outer footnote A
> >
> >What I expect for footnotes is two footnotes, i.e.:
> >
> >1 outer footnote A
> >
> >A nested footnote
> >
> >I have read the manyfoot.pdf documentation but can't figure out how to
> >do this. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have any simple examples.
> >
> >Thanks
> >George
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