Problem with converting footnotes into endnotes

Question

I'm using endnotes package to create endnotes, and since my existing body of text already contains lots of footnotes, I use \let\footnote=\endnote to convert footnotes into endnotes.

    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{endnotes}
    \usepackage{hyperref}
    \let\footnote=\endnote
    \begin{document}
    Sample text.\footnote{Sample footnote}.
    \theendnotes
    \end{document}

But while the original footnotes were nicely cross-referenced, the conversion doesn't preserve that. Is there a way to make a conversion while preserving the cross-referencing?

Answer 1

In order to make hyperref work with endnotes, you could use enotez. All you have to do is load enotez instead of endnotes and use \printendnotes instead of \theendnotes:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backref]{enotez}      % <-- instead of \usepackage{endnotes}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\let\footnote=\endnote
\begin{document}
    Sample text.\footnote{Sample footnote}.
\printendnotes           % <-- instead of \theendnotes
\end{document}

Edit: If you want back references from the notes to the mark in the text, then use the option backref

Update: Newer versions of enotez are set differently (see remark in the comments)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enotez}
\setenotez{backref=true} % <-- options are set like this nowadays
\usepackage{hyperref}
\let\footnote=\endnote
\begin{document}
    Sample text.\footnote{Sample footnote}.
\printendnotes

\end{document}