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I'm using the pagenote package to put my endnotes at the end of every chapter. For example, see the accepted answer for this question: How does one get endnotes at the end of every chapter?

In short:

\chapter{First Chapter}
 some text
\printnotes*

How can I renew the \chapter command so that I don't have to include \printnotes* at the end of every chapter?

I don't want to make the \printnotes* command happen before the \chapter command because then I'll get notes before the first chapter (which doesn't make sense).

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jlconlin
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  • LaTeX doesn't know when a chapter ends, but only when a new one starts, which is not exactly the same thing, as you discovered. – egreg Nov 22 '12 at 15:55
  • @egreg That is what I'm trying to avoid. If I have to manually enter the \printnotes command at the end of every chapter, I know I'll forget it somewhere. – jlconlin Nov 22 '12 at 16:51
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    What if a chapter has no endnotes? What about the final chapter? What about a bibliography added with biblatex which emits \chapter*? And so on. I don't think that your book has so many chapters that checking for \printnotes* at their end is overwhelming. :) – egreg Nov 22 '12 at 16:54
  • @egreg You have a point there. I may have to reconsider what I want to do. – jlconlin Nov 22 '12 at 17:00

2 Answers2

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Here is a solution using the \pretocmd provided by the etoolbox package. 

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{pagenote}
\makepagenote
\begin{document}

\chapter{Chap 1}

\pretocmd{\chapter}{\printnotes*}{}{}

\chapter{Chap 2}
\chapter{Chap 3}
\chapter{Chap 4}
\printnotes*

\end{document}

As you can see the command may be used after the initial \chapter.

Edit #1

As I've made the correction on the code above, another \printnotes* command is required at the end of the final chapter.

Edit #2

It might feel more convenient to automate the process in the preamble itself with the help of logic.

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{pagenote}
\makepagenote

\renewcommand*{\notedivision}{\section*{\notesname\ to chapter~\thechapter}}
\renewcommand*{\pagenotesubhead}[2]{}

\pretocmd{\chapter}{%
    \ifnum\value{chapter}>0\relax\printnotes*\fi%
}{}{}
%\pretocmd{\backmatter}{\printnotes*}{}{}
\AtEndDocument{\printnotes*}    

\begin{document}

\chapter{Chap 1}
\chapter{Chap 2}
\chapter{Chap 3}

\end{document}

In the presence of backmatter the line \pretocmd{\backmatter}{\printnotes*}{}{} can be uncommented while \AtEndDocument may be omitted.

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The solution given here works, if you are sure that you want to have all endnotes at the end of each chapter. But what if you want to decide to revert to all endnotes at the end? And what if you also have some endnotes in a Preface, indicated as \chapter*{Preface} that appears before the \mainmatter ?

I've extended this solution to give me the choice, using an etoolbox toggle, \newtoggle{chapternotes}.

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\newtoggle{chapternotes}
\toggletrue{chapternotes}
%\togglefalse{chapternotes}

\iftoggle{chapternotes}{%
    % using chapternotes
    \renewcommand{\notedivision}{\section*{\notesname\ to Chapter~\thechapter}}%
    \renewcommand{\pagenotesubhead}[2]{}%
%   \pretocmd{\chapter}{\printnotes*}{}{}%
    \pretocmd{\chapter}{%
        \ifnum\value{chapter}>0\relax\printnotes*\fi%
    }{}{}
    \pretocmd{\mainmatter}{\printnotes*}{}{}%   Notes in Preface
    \pretocmd{\backmatter}{\printnotes*}{}{}%
}{%
    % using notes at end of book
    \renewcommand{\notedivision}{\chapter*{\notesname}}
}

In my main file, I include another \iftoggle to decide whether to print the the Notes at the end, 

\backmatter
% Endnotes, whether in chapters or all at the end
\iftoggle{chapternotes}{%
    \relax % using chapternotes
}{%
    % using notes at end of book
    \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Notes}
\printnotes
}

A related question, change footnotes to endnotes, but allow some old footnotes, describes how to switch some footnotes to endnotes.

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