Re: Multiple references to a footnote in texi sources

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 13:34:34 +0000
> 
> > (It is really unusual to have several footnote references to the same
> > footnote.  Usually, you do this once, and then assume the reader
> > already knows what the footnote says and doesn't need repetition.)
> 
> In this particular case, I was writing a manual patch that clarifies
> about some defcustoms not being available until the discussed library is
> loaded. Multiple places in the manual can share the same footnote in
> such scenario.

In that case, I suggest to make the "footnote's" text a @node, and
cross-reference to that node from each place that needs to do so.