Move the footnote text away from the footnote command in code

Question

I have some text with a couple of footnotes in tables which I handle with the footnote package. The footnote text is very very long and it makes the code unreadable, it happened already that I had to bisect the entire code to find small syntax error in tables which I missed because of the really ugly code.

Is it possible to move the footnote text away from the footnote command in code?

I know already about the footnotemark-footnotetext solution, but I would like a general solution that could be used for other commands to. For example with hyperlinks and similar stuff. Is there any way to achieve this?

What I would like is something like this (this is not real code):

\begin{document}

main text here\footnote{1}
more main text\footnote{2}
more text\href{3}{name}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% footnote contents
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
[1] footnote 1 text
[2] footnote 2 text
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% email addresses
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
[3] mailto:mail@server.com

\end{document}

Welcome to TeX.SX! You may have a look on our starter guide. — texenthusiast, May 08 '13 at 07:38
I believe you're looking for the sepfootnotes package, see my answer to “Can Footnotes reside in another file?” — cgnieder, May 08 '13 at 07:45
Yes this is the way to go, but does it work only with footnotes? Is there a way to a generalized approach for other commands to? The footnote case is the most common, but this may be useful elsewhere too. — marcinkus, May 08 '13 at 08:01
@marcinkus Have a look at Is it possible to write all mathematical formulas in a separate file and add them in main file on-demand?. The methods outlined there should easily be adapted to other cases. — cgnieder, May 08 '13 at 08:22

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 08 '13 at 08:09

Just to point out what you probably already know: that if you don't want email addresses cluttering the main body of your text, you can factor them out just by using vanilla LaTeX macros, like this:

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{hyperref}

\def\harryemail{mailto:harry@server.com}
\def\sallyemail{mailto:sally@server.com}

\begin{document}

Email \href{\harryemail}{Harry} or \href{\sallyemail}{Sally}

\end{document}

Move the footnote text away from the footnote command in code

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