Re: reftex-label-alist-builtin and footnote

[Arash Esbati]

Hi Uwe,

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> I only realised by now that one value of 
> reftex-label-alist-builtin
> is indeed
>       ("\\footnote[]{}" ?n "fn:" "~\\footref{%s}" 2
>        (regexp "footnotes?" "Fussnoten?"))
>
>
> But how is supposed to work?
>
> I tried out \footnote[fn:1]{This}
> but reftex did not find this label.

Try

  \footnote{This is my footnote\label{fn:1}} and reference it with
  \footref{fn:1}

> Then, is there any automatic way to obtain a label in footnote, in the
> same manner reftex adds automatically labels to equations say?

This is currently not implemented.  I think it is also overkill to add a
label to every footnote.  If you need one, put the point inside the
footnote and hit 'C-c ('.

Best, Arash