Multiple footnotes at one point

Question

I'm trying to create multiple footnotes referencing from one point, that look like this:

lorem^1,2

Searching for "multiple footnotes" shows up almost exclusively solutions for multiple references to one footnote. Here I have two separate footnotes, pointing from one place. I also don't want to merge them into one, because I tried it and it looks ugly.

Currently I resolved it in a quick and dirty way, writing:

lorem\footnote{foot1}$^{,}$\footnote{foot2}

Which shows up in the resulting PDF just fine, but I feel somehow bad about it. Is there a better way to do it?

score 112 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 10 '12 at 22:36

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Use the footmisc package and its multiple option.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[multiple]{footmisc}

\textheight=80pt% only for the example

\begin{document}

Some text.\footnote{A footnote}\footnote{And another one.}

\end{document}

enter image description here

edited Sep 10 '12 at 22:36

doncherry

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answered Sep 14 '11 at 21:03

lockstep

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And for use with hyperref see Holle's answer to Incompatibility between footmisc-option multiple and hyperref. – Stephen Aug 14 '13 at 16:44
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FWIW, I found that this setup (footmisc package with multiple option) has the first line of the footnotes indented, which was not desirable for me. Using the fnpct package (as @clemens suggested) kept my footnotes unindented. (I tried adding some of the footmisc options like para or hang, but they didn't quite match the default style I wanted.) – Dolan Antenucci Jan 18 '16 at 15:13
It's been a while, but I would like to add to @Stephen's comment: for my use case there was no incompatibility. It just worked – Artur Czajka Aug 18 '22 at 18:21

score 93 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 16 '11 at 15:15

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This (the footmisc solution) won't work if you also have the hyperref package loaded. Either turn off hyperfootnotes [hyperfootnotes=false] as an argument to hyperref, or use \textsuperscript{,}. This maintains the same font for the comma, whereas your workaround above inserts the math font, and it could be different.

edited Nov 16 '11 at 15:15

doncherry

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answered Nov 16 '11 at 15:06

bob spreen

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Welcome to TeX.sx! A tip: You can use backticks ``` to mark your inline code as I did in my edit. – doncherry Nov 16 '11 at 15:15
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This is actually mentioned in the footmisc documentation: "The hyperref package has ambitions to make hyperlinks from footnote marks to the corresponding footnote body; naturally this causes grief to footmisc, and unfortunately no remedy is currently known. If you use footmisc, suppress hyperref's hyper-footnotes, by loading it as: \usepackage[hyperfootnotes=false,...]{hyperref}. Further work on the interaction between the two packages is proposed, but not yet scheduled." – doncherry Nov 16 '11 at 15:23
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@doncherry footmisc uses its own command \multfootsep, which defaults to "comma in current text font". it hasn't used a maths comma since 1997 (at least); this doesn't negate the point about hyperref compatibility, of course (hyperref wasn't publicly available when i wrote footmisc, and i never quite got around to retrofitting it). – wasteofspace Sep 13 '12 at 10:58
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Hey, I'm not entirely sure why, but this solution doesn't work even without the hyperref package. Any other ideas? – Amir Sagiv Feb 21 '17 at 07:50
No problems here with hyperref in conjunction with footmisc. – Toru Mar 23 '19 at 22:09
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@AmirSagiv I had this problem and noticed that the footmisc package only works when the footnotes are actually adjacent. I had a line break between my footnotes, which footmisc didn't catch. Make sure there aren't any spaces/linebreaks/etc between footnotes. – crockeea Apr 05 '19 at 16:25

score 40 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

Additionally to the mentioned footmisc and the solution “by hand” there are three more possibilities.

The KOMA-Script classes offer the option footnotes=multiple:
```
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\KOMAoption{footnotes}{multiple}
\textheight=50pt % for this example only
\begin{document}
Text\footnote{One}\footnote{Two}
\end{document}
```
As this again is not compatible with hyperref KOMA-Script also offers the rather lengthy \multiplefootnoteseparator. The comma used in both cases is set by \multfootsep which is defined through
```
\newcommand*\multfootsep{,}
```

The memoir class natively supports multiple footnotes:

\documentclass{memoir}
\textheight=50pt % for this example only
\begin{document}
Text\footnote{One}\footnote{Two}
\end{document}

enter image description here

Again this is not working together with hyperref so memoir also defines a macro for manual input, \multfootsep, which is defined like this:

\newcommand*{\multfootsep}{\textsuperscript{\normalfont,}}

Then there is fnpct - a package that was designed to offer a solution for the kerning between footnote marks and punctuation. As a sideeffect it also enables multiple footnotes that are compatiple with hyperref:
```
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fnpct}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
\textheight=50pt % for this example only
\begin{document}
Text\footnote{One}\footnote{Two}
\end{document}
```

Your answer and the información you share is unsurpassable. — karloswitt, Aug 14 '15 at 20:03
Nice answer. However, automatic recognition in KOMA scrbook with footnotes=multipledoes not seem to work for me. Adding \multiplefootnoteseparator manually between the footnotes works though. — n1000, Sep 20 '16 at 08:18
Good answer - all I had to do was add \usepackage{fnpct} to my preamble. Also works when using hyperref. — AstroFloyd, Apr 17 '20 at 07:50

score 34 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 13 '12 at 07:13

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Here is a very easy way to implement it for oneself with only four lines of code. One can redefine the footnote-command and have a look to the following command using \futurelet. If the next command is also a footnote-command a , is included. That's all. And it plays well with the hyperref-package.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\let\oldFootnote\footnote
\newcommand\nextToken\relax

\renewcommand\footnote[1]{%
    \oldFootnote{#1}\futurelet\nextToken\isFootnote}

\newcommand\isFootnote{%
    \ifx\footnote\nextToken\textsuperscript{,}\fi}

\textheight=3cm
\begin{document}

Text\footnote{First footnote}\footnote{Second footnote}\footnote{Third footnote} Text\footnote{Fourth footnote} Text

\end{document}

multiple footnotes

answered Sep 13 '12 at 07:13

Holle

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A nice tutorial on how to use \futurelet! This solution seems to be so clean and simple that I wonder what are it's drawbacks. I mean, why there is a dozen of packages and classes for multiple footnotes that all fail on the integration with hyperref? – Daniel Sep 13 '12 at 07:42
Great solution, and nice not to have to load another package for something so simple. – John Aug 22 '18 at 02:33
Awesome solution. Still works. – Mr. Panda Mar 02 '22 at 15:16

Latex_user · Answer 5 · 2022-08-17T14:57:13.020

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you could also use an apostrophe written in math-mode for that:

\newcommand{\hochkomma}{$^{,}$}

For Example:

Testing multiple footnotes with commas \footnote{foonote1}\hochkomma\footnote{foonote2}\hochkomma\footnote{foonote3}

It will look like:

edited Aug 17 '22 at 14:57

answered Aug 17 '22 at 14:53

Latex_user

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