DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: footnote formatting

[Jens Emmerich <Jens dot Emmerich at encorus dot com>]

Yann Dirson <ydirson@fr.alcove.com> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 02:56:12PM +0300, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 11:44:09AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > > For #3, I suppose you can redefine footnote-number (from print/dbblock.dsl).
> > 
> > I've played with that a bit, but I couldn't figure out how to find
> > whether the node being processed is the first footnote on the page. Any
> > ideas?
> 
> Hm.  Page limits are decided by TeX, so this would have to be a mixed
> solution.  Maybe define some new flow object, that JadeTeX could turn
> into the number you want.  Never got to do such things, it may require
> patching openjade as well.  Probably Ian Castle could confirm.

Try to add 
\usepackage{footnpag}
into jadetex.cfg. See also

ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/footnpag

Hope this helps,

Jens