How to have footnotes nested within footnotes?

Question

I'm trying to create nested footnotes, along the lines of Infinite Jest (only with footnotes rather than endnotes). I've read the Footnoteception post and found the Bigfoot package, which seems to have the behavior I want, i.e.,

In particular, footnote 2 is exactly what I want.

The problem is that I've been using the normal \footnote quite a bit throughout the text, but bigfoot doesn't follow the established footnote numbering. What should I do?

Answer 1

Make sure you are using:

\DeclareNewFootnote{default}

This is how to 'access' the normal footnotes with bigfoot. For example:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{bigfoot,lipsum}
\DeclareNewFootnote{default}
\DeclareNewFootnote{A}[alph]

\begin{document}

\footnote{This is the default level%
  \footnoteA{And this is the A-level.}}%
\lipsum[1]

\footnote{This is the default level%
  \footnoteA{And this is the A-level.}}%
\lipsum[1]

\end{document}