[texhax] macro for numbering footnotes on each page

Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Sat May 29 10:40:47 CEST 2010



Adam Fenn wrote:
>
> I found the file below (schrod.txh) in the texhax archives which resets the footnote number to 1 on each new page.
> However, I cannot get it to work. I assume that ~ ought to be ^ but other than that I am at a loss. Can anyone here
> get it to work or have a more up to date plain TeX solution?
>
> TIA
> Adam.

Well, I notice it came via Bitnet, so may be in EBCDIC (whence
your comments on tilde v. caret); there may therefore be other
character mappings that are less obvious.  But if you change
tilde to caret at the line

	\@@footnote{\hbox{$~{#1}$}}%

and try it, what happens ?

Philip Taylor


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