[Tex/LaTex] How to typeset a reference to a footnote

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I want to enter in a footnote a reference to another footnote (in this case it's on the same page above).

I found out how I can create the reference, so that it is formatted like a "normal" footnote number (How can I use \footnotemark with a \ref argument?), but how should I typeset it?

Is it ok like in the picture below (in english "see footnote" with a spacebetween the word "footnote" and the footnotemark?

Or how could that be done better?

  • Maybe without the space?
  • .. or even not as a footnotemark, but as a normal number (in normalsize)?

example

Best Answer

In my opinion, you should use full-size numbers -- not only for references to footnotes, but also for the actual notes.

Quoting Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, p. 69:

4.3.3 Use superscripts in the text but full-size numbers in the notes themselves

In the main text, superscript numbers are used to indicate notes because superscript numbers minimize interruption. They are typographic asides: small because that is an expression of their relative importance, and raised for two reasons: to keep them out of the flow of the main text, and to make them easier to find. In the note itself, the number is not an aside but a target. Therefore the number in the note should be full size.

EDIT: Here's an example using the scrextend package which is part of KOMA-script:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{scrextend}
\deffootnote{2em}{1.6em}{\thefootnotemark\hspace{0.7em}}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}

\blindtext\footnote{\blindtext}

\end{document}
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