README for footnoterange package, 2023-02-25, v1.1a TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= 1 Introduction 2 Download 3 Installation 4 Additional Packages 5 Package Compatibility 6 Author/Maintainer 7 Bug Reports 8 Known Problems 1 INTRODUCTION ============== This LaTeX package provides the environments footnoterange and footnoterange*. Multiple footnotes inside these environments are not referenced as e.g. "1 2 3" but as "1-3", i.e. the range (from first to last referred footnote at that place) is given. Depending on loading of hyperref package and use of its hyperfootnotes-option the references are hyperlinked. (References to footnotes in the footnoterange* environment are never hyperlinked.) The example additionally demonstrates how other footnote- number-representations (\Roman, \roman, \Alph, \alph, \fnsymbol) are possible, especially for more footnotes than letters in the alphabet or symbols in fnsymbol. Creation of smaller link boxes for footnotes is explained in the documentation. This material is published under the LPPL 1.3c: This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any later version. This version of this license is in https://www.latex-project.org/lppl/lppl-1-3c.txt and the latest version of this license is in https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2005-12-01 or later. 2 DOWNLOAD ========== "footnoterange" is available on CTAN: https://ctan.org/pkg/footnoterange Also a ZIP file is provided that contains the files: the manual (footnoterange.pdf), the example (footnoterange-example.tex), the compiled example (footnoterange-example.pdf), driver (footnoterange.drv), footnoterange.dtx, installation file (footnoterange.ins), the style file (footnoterange.sty), and this README, already sorted in a TDS tree: https://mirror.ctan.org/install/macros/latex/contrib/footnoterange.tds.zip 3 INSTALLATION ============== Installation with ZIP file in TDS format ---------------------------------------- The ZIP file "footnoterange.tds.zip" contains the files sorted in a TDS tree. Thus you can directly unpack the ZIP file inside a TDS tree. See https://www.ctan.org/TDS-guidelines for an explanation of TDS. Example: cd /...somewhere.../texmf unzip /...downloadpath.../footnoterange.tds.zip Do not forget to refresh the file name database of this TDS tree. Example: texhash /...somewhere.../texmf Manual installation ------------------- a) Download the footnoterange files from CTAN. If necessary, unpack them. b) Generate the package and driver files: tex footnoterange.dtx c) Install the file "footnoterange.sty" in your TDS tree: cp footnoterange.sty TDS:tex/latex/footnoterange/ Replace "TDS:" by the prefix of your TDS tree (texmf directory). d) Create the documentation, if necessary, e.g. pdflatex footnoterange.dtx makeindex -s gind.ist footnoterange.idx pdflatex footnoterange.dtx makeindex -s gind.ist footnoterange.idx pdflatex footnoterange.dtx e) Update the databases if necessary, e.g. for TeXLive texhash or mktexlsr. f) Create the footnoterange-example.pdf, if necessary, e.g. pdflatex footnoterange-example.tex pdflatex footnoterange-example.tex pdflatex footnoterange-example.tex g) Copy the documentation files to "TDS:doc/latex/footnoterange/": README, footnoterange.pdf, footnoterange-example.tex, footnoterange-example.pdf. 4 ADDITIONAL PACKAGES ===================== footnoterange loads no other packages, but the example does. 5 PACKAGE COMPATIBILITY ======================= footnoterange should be loaded quite late, i.e. after footnote handling is changed by other packages. If the hyperref package is used, footnoterange should be loaded after hyperref. 6 AUTHOR/MAINTAINER =================== H.-Martin Münch 7 BUG REPORTS ============= A bug report should contain: * Comprehensive problem description. This includes error or warning messages. * \errorcontextlines=\maxdimen can be added in the TeX code to get more information in TeX error messages. * Minimal test file that shows the problem, but does not contain any unnecessary packages and code. * Used drivers/programs. * Version information about used packages and programs. * If you are using LaTeX, then add "\listfiles" to the document. Then a list of version information is printed at the end of the LaTeX run. * Please no other files than the minimal test file. The other files .log, .dvi, .ps, .pdf are seldom necessary, so send them only on request. * Please .zip or .tar.gz your file(s) before sending them! Bug address ----------- Bug reports can be send to the maintainer: H.-Martin Münch 8 KNOWN PROBLEMS ================ The footnoterange package does not handle \footnotemark in footnoteranges (see \fnr@rangefootnotemark in the documentation).