I'm using latex to make a book.  I want to have footnotes appear
at the end of the book, instead of on each page.  How do I do that?

I know how to create superscript numbers, and to reset the counter
as each chapter starts.  What I don't know is how to give a label
to each superscript number so that I can reproduce it before the
corresponding note at the end of the book.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 04 Mar 2004 12:51 PST

Howdy, Paul!

I am no LaTeX expert, but I found a newsgroup post that may be helpful
in solving your problem:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1993Sep9.125854.19665%40waikato.ac.nz&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain

I also found this, which is a good deal simpler:

"Footnotes - use \footnote. The footnotes are numbered in a single
sequence through the whole document. \usepackage[perpage]{footmisc}
gives per-page numbering. \usepackage{endnotes} puts all the
'footnotes' at the end of the document."

http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/reports.html 

Please let me know if either of these methods does the trick.

~Pink

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Clarification of Question by bugbear-ga on 04 Mar 2004 13:41 PST

Alas, no, this is not what I'm looking for.  These are basically
hacks for making the footnote command generate endnotes.  What
I want to do is something more specific, and simpler.  I want to
know how to store the value of footnotecounter at a specific moment
in order to refer to it later.

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Request for Question Clarification by maniac-ga on 04 Mar 2004 15:33 PST

Hello Bugbear,

Hmm. You don't want endnotes but you want something similar where you
can refer to the value generated by the superscript numbers.

The general approach for numbered items is to user a counter; for example
 - \newcounter{X} in the preamble defines the counter
 - \setcounter{X}{1} resets the number to one
 - \theX prints the counter as an arabic number
Based on what you describe, I suggest you use a counter to produce the
value used in the supercript number.

I should be able to guide you how to define a command that increments
the counter, do the superscript, and then define a label that you can
refer to later. It would look something like:

  Something to reference\myfoot{label-goes-here} in the document.

as the definition / display of the superscript value. The generation
of the note at the end would look something like:

  \ref{label-goes-here} Note that describes the reference.

where the reference will match the current value when the "myfoot" was used above.

Would a solution like this be acceptable?

  --Maniac

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Clarification of Question by bugbear-ga on 14 Mar 2004 10:31 PST

Yes, this looks good.