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I have a text with about 31000 lines, so it is quite long. There are many footnotes in the text (1 every second line or so). I am using footmisc with the option perpage.

Halfway through compiling I get a message that the counter is too large and the compile fails.

If I use a subsection of the text it will compile just fine, so it is solely a matter of my text being ginormous.

What can I do? Sorry, I am a total LaTeX newbie.

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peter
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    The only time the Counter too large error message is issued is for counters that use alphabetic or symbolic representations. If your footnotes use numbers, they're not responsible; maybe a long enumerated list with letters as labels? – egreg Jan 05 '14 at 00:56
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    If you really want to use an alphabetic representation for your many footnotes, you might benefit from using Heiko Oberdiek's alphalph package. – jub0bs Jan 05 '14 at 01:17
  • I do want letters. Many thanks for the suggestion of alphalph. I will see if it fixes my problem.

    The occasions where a page has so many notes that the alphabet once round does not suffice are few. The sentences are numbered too, so there would be a clash of small numbers everywhere if I used numbers as footnote markers

     – peter Jan 05 '14 at 01:41

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