Re: Multiple references to a footnote in texi sources

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

Sounds like a bit of overkill when the text is short, but thanks for the
idea.

Another suggestion I got was to put something like ~variable~
(=library.el=) and explain in the introduction that such notation
implies that the variable is only available upon loading the library.

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