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I am using \setnotetext[footnote][0001]{This is a footnote.} to set a footnote's text and \note[footnote][0001] to create multiple references to it. When the footnote's first appearance, and later appearances appear within about 10 pages, this works okay, however, if the distance is too far, it becomes unwieldy to refer to footnotes appearing so far back, given the complexity of the document. How can I get ConTeXt to assign a new number to the footnote, and display the same text at the bottom of the page, it it has not done so for 10 or more pages and it happens to be referenced again? E.g.:

 _______________________
|                       |
| This is some text.^1  |
|                       |
|                       | (page 1)
| ....                  |
| 1 This is a footnote. |
|_______________________|
 _______________________
|                       |
| This is some text.^1  |
|                       |
|                       | (page 6)
|                       |
|                       |
|_______________________|
 _______________________
|                       |
| This is some text.^2  |
|                       |
|                       | (page 14)
| ....                  |
| 2 This is a footnote. |
|_______________________|
 _______________________
|                       |
| This is some text.^2  |
|                       |
|                       | (page 16)
|                       |
|                       |
|_______________________|
 _______________________
|                       |
| This is some text.^3  |
|                       |
|                       | (page 70)
| ....                  |
| 3 This is a footnote. |
|_______________________|

How can I automatically assign the footnote a new number, and redisplay the text, if the last appearance of the footnote's text appeared more than 10 pages prior?

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Is it not stylistic better to write the same footnote again? Because there are quite many pages in between. Or you could refer to this earlier section if that would be possible. Mostly, it is an important point if you have some remarks that reappear many times. You should probably think about this. – strpeter Feb 15 at 9:04

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