Re: Multiple references to a footnote in texi sources

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 04:47:37 +0000
> 
> Well. It is what is already done then. Kind of.
> Because Org manual is written in Org and Org does allow multiple
> references to a footnote, we currently produce texinfo sources that
> contain 2 footnotes with identical text.
> 
> But such footnotes look strange when referenced sequentially - texinfo
> displays two identical footnotes one after another.

In my book, this means a footnote is a wrong means to handle these
cases.  If you are talking about a reference to book or a URL, there
are other ways of doing that which don't use @footnote.  I'm guessing
people think they should use @footnote because the have something like
footnote-mode in mind.  But that's superficial similarity, based on
the presence of the same word and on nothing else.