How to put \value{counter} as value to .aux file?

Question

I'm trying to customize eledmac settings in a way that I can use its footnote ability just like the ordinary LaTeX footnote style, but not as one paragraph per footnote but all footnotes in one paragraph. My problem is now to get the footnote mark into the footnote text apparatus, since eledmac is used to put line number and lemma there instead of footnote marks.

As a result, if I use \value{footnote} somewhere in the second argument of \edtext, I only get the last (highest) footnote number because eledmac will typeset the footnote apparatus when finalizing the page instead of instantly inserting footnotes that would reflect the current footnote counter value.

In order to fix this, I've already set up a little label/reference command that will memorize the footnote mark number in the .aux file. This seems to work as long as I put hard coded footnote numbers into it, but if I pass \value{footnote} to it, \value{footnote} gets into the .aux file, which again results in the last (highest) footnote number of the page.

Is there a way to resolve \value{footnote} to its actual value for the .aux file? What could I do instead, if there's no way for doing so? Here a screenshot of the PDF:

_{(source: freie-bibel.de)}

Here an example:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{ngerman}
\usepackage{eledmac}
\usepackage{perpage}
\usepackage{zref-user}

\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}

\numberlinefalse
\footparagraph{A}
\nonumberinfootnote

\MakePerPage{footnote}

\makeatletter
\zref@newprop{myfootnote}[0]{0}
\zref@addprop{main}{myfootnote}

\newcommand*{\footnotemarkref}[1]
{
    \zref@extractdefault{#1}{myfootnote}{0}
}

\newcommand*{\footnotemarklabel}[1]
{
    \zref@setcurrent{myfootnote}{\value{footnote}}
    \zref@labelbyprops{#1}{myfootnote} 
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\beginnumbering
\pstart
Dieses\edtext{\addtocounter{footnote}{1}\footnotemark[\footnotemarkref{footnote:1:2:1}]}{\lemma{\footnotemark[\footnotemarkref{footnote:1:2:1}] 1,2}\Afootnote{\footnotemarklabel{footnote:1:2:1}O. Er.}} war im Anfang bei Gott.
Alles ward durch dasselbe,\edtext{\addtocounter{footnote}{1}\footnotemark[\footnotemarkref{footnote:1:3:1}]}{\lemma{\footnotemark[\footnotemarkref{footnote:1:3:1}] 1,3}\Afootnote{\footnotemarklabel{footnote:1:3:1}O. ihn.}} und ohne dasselbe ward auch nicht eins, das geworden ist.
\pend
\endnumbering
\end{document}

The lines in the .aux file are:

\zref@newlabel{footnote:1:2:1}{\myfootnote{\c@footnote }}
\zref@newlabel{footnote:1:3:1}{\myfootnote{\c@footnote }}

Where I would rather have something like this:

\zref@newlabel{footnote:1:2:1}{\myfootnote{1 }}
\zref@newlabel{footnote:1:3:1}{\myfootnote{2 }}

Additionally, if you know where the space before the footnote mark in the text area are coming from, please let me know. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I'm not entirely sure whether this answers your question: You can use the \zref@wrapper@immediate macro to expunge things immediately to the .aux. From the zref documentation (section 2.8 Wrapper for advanced situations, p 10):

\zref@wrapper@immediate{...}

There are situations where a label must be written instantly to the .aux file, for example after the last page. If the \zlabel or \label command is put inside this wrapper, immediate writing is enabled.

However, some macro shuffling allows you to get around it. Here's the complete MWE:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{ngerman}
\usepackage{eledmac}
\usepackage{perpage}
\usepackage{zref-user}

\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}

\numberlinefalse
\footparagraph{A}
\nonumberinfootnote

\MakePerPage{footnote}

\makeatletter
\zref@newprop{myfootnote}[0]{\thefootnote}
\zref@addprop{main}{myfootnote}

\newcommand*{\footnotemarkref}[1]
{%
    \zref@extractdefault{#1}{myfootnote}{0}%
}

\newcommand*{\footnotemarklabel}[1]
{%
    \zref@labelbyprops{#1}{myfootnote}%
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\beginnumbering
\pstart
Dieses\edtext{\stepcounter{footnote}\footnotemarklabel{footnote:1:2:1}\footnotemark[\footnotemarkref{footnote:1:2:1}]}{\lemma{\footnotemark[\footnotemarkref{footnote:1:2:1}] 1,2}\Afootnote{O. Er.}} war im Anfang bei Gott.
Alles ward durch dasselbe,\edtext{\stepcounter{footnote}\footnotemarklabel{footnote:1:3:1}\footnotemark[\footnotemarkref{footnote:1:3:1}]}{\lemma{\footnotemark[\footnotemarkref{footnote:1:3:1}] 1,3}\Afootnote{O. ihn.}} und ohne dasselbe ward auch nicht eins, das geworden ist.
\pend
\endnumbering
\end{document}

with the output in the .aux now containing:

\zref@newlabel{footnote:1:2:1}{\myfootnote{1}}
\zref@newlabel{footnote:1:3:1}{\myfootnote{2}}

Note that I've shuffled around the use of some commands within your document, as well as include some end-of-line % to avoid spurious spaces. See What is the use of percent signs (%) at the end of lines?