Linking footnotes back to the original text using the biblatex-chicago package

Question

I am currently working on an e-book using Latex and Biber. The package that I am using for footnotes is the biblatex-chicago package.

I can successfully link to a footnote from, say, a paragraph, but I would like to be able to click the actual footnote and return to the original place, creating a back-reference. I have viewed some of the other posts related to similar topics, but none that seem to work with the biblatex-chicago package, with which I use \autocite to create my foot notes.

MWE

\documentclass[10pt, letterpaper]{book} 
\usepackage{palatino} 
\usepackage[notes,backend=biber]{biblatex-chicago} 
    \addbibresource{mweBib.bib} 
\usepackage{footnotebackref} 
\usepackage{tocloft} 
    \renewcommand{\cftchapleader}{\cftdotfill{\cftdotsep}} 
    \date{} \let\cleardoublepage\clearpage 
\usepackage{hyperref} 
\usepackage{color} 
    \hypersetup{colorlinks=true, linkcolor=blue, linktoc=all}
\begin{document} 
    This is a test for footnotebackref.\autocite[100]{test}
    \printbibliography
\end{document}

I hope that I have stated my problem clearly. Any help is greatly appreciated!

The package footnotebackref from Footnote backreference with hyperref works like a charm here, even with biblatex-chicago's footnote citations. Can you prepare a MWE of how it didn't work for you? — moewe, Aug 01 '15 at 17:44
@moewe Thank you for your reply! Here is my MWE: `\documentclass[10pt, letterpaper]{book} \usepackage{palatino} \usepackage[notes,backend=biber]{biblatex-chicago} \usepackage{footnotebackref} \usepackage{tocloft} \renewcommand{\cftchapleader}{\cftdotfill{\cftdotsep}} \date{} \let\cleardoublepage\clearpage \usepackage{hyperref} \usepackage{color} \hypersetup{colorlinks=true, linkcolor=blue, linktoc=all} \addbibresource{mweBib.bib}
\begin{document} This is a test for footnotebackref.\autocite[100]{test}

\printbibliography] \end{document}` Am I missing something with footnotebackref? — macintoshJake, Aug 02 '15 at 19:05
Ahh, I will admit that the option numberlinked=true is somehow impaired by biblatex patching the \footnote commands, if you use \usepackage[symbol=$\wedge$]{footnotebackref} it works, though. Maybe I can get around to finding a work-around for the numberlink option later... — moewe, Aug 02 '15 at 20:05
So it wasn't biblatex patching \footnote commands, it was biblatex-chicago's redefining the look of the footnotes.... I really didn't expect that. — moewe, Aug 03 '15 at 05:17

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

It is indeed thanks to biblatex-chicago that the footnotebackref package does not work. In biblatex-chicago.sty, we find

\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{% Provides in-line footnote marks
      \setlength\parindent{1em}%
      \noindent
      \makebox[2.3em][r]{\@thefnmark.\,\,}#1}

This is executed whenever we load a non-memoir document class. Unfortunately, footnotebackref cannot modify this macro and so we will have to do it ourselves.

The code below does not even need to load footnotebackref, the most important aspects can be implemented with a few lines of code (which were taken from footnotebackref package/Holle's answer to Footnote backreference with hyperref verbosely)

\newcounter{BackrefHyperFootnoteCounter}
\makeatletter
\pretocmd{\footnote}    
    {\refstepcounter{BackrefHyperFootnoteCounter}%
     \edef\BackrefFootnoteTag{bhfn:\theBackrefHyperFootnoteCounter}%
     \label{\BackrefFootnoteTag}}
    {}{}
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{% Provides in-line footnote marks
  \setlength\parindent{1em}%
  \noindent
  \makebox[2.3em][r]{\hyperref[\BackrefFootnoteTag]{\@thefnmark}.\,\,}#1}
\makeatother

In the last lines we modify biblatex-chicago's macro to include the link to the footnote.

MWE

\documentclass[10pt, letterpaper]{book}
\usepackage{palatino}
\usepackage[notes,backend=biber]{biblatex-chicago}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}

\newcounter{BackrefHyperFootnoteCounter}
\makeatletter
\pretocmd{\footnote}    
    {\refstepcounter{BackrefHyperFootnoteCounter}%
     \edef\BackrefFootnoteTag{bhfn:\theBackrefHyperFootnoteCounter}%
     \label{\BackrefFootnoteTag}}
    {}{}
\renewcommand\@makefntext[1]{% Provides in-line footnote marks
  \setlength\parindent{1em}%
  \noindent
  \makebox[2.3em][r]{\hyperref[\BackrefFootnoteTag]{\@thefnmark}.\,\,}#1}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
This is a test for footnotebackref.\autocite[100]{wilde}

\printbibliography
\end{document}

Linking footnotes back to the original text using the biblatex-chicago package

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