Can Tex make a footnote to the footnote of a footnote?

Question

I know how to make a footnote to a footnote with package bigfoot. Is it possible to make a third layer of footnotes, namely a footnote to the footnote of a footnote? I am not kidding. I do need this to make a report of the study of ancient literature.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Sure, you can create as many footnote levels as you like, as shown in the example below. You can also create a footnoteD from within footnoteB, but watch out, this can screw up the sorting of the footnotes quite badly. So please, think of your poor reader and don't skip levels, and keep the footnote'ception to a minimum.

PS: the % at the end of each line is to prevent LaTeX from adding a space between the end of the text and the footnote symbol

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[ruled]{bigfoot}

\DeclareNewFootnote{A}[arabic]
\DeclareNewFootnote{B}[alph]
\DeclareNewFootnote{C}[Alph]
\DeclareNewFootnote{D}[roman]
\DeclareNewFootnote{E}[Roman]
\DeclareNewFootnote{F}[fnsymbol]

\MakeSortedPerPage{footnoteB}
\MakeSortedPerPage{footnoteC}
\MakeSortedPerPage{footnoteD}
\MakeSortedPerPage{footnoteE}
\MakeSortedPerPage{footnoteF}

\begin{document}

Just some normal text\footnoteA{with footnotes!} and even more text
\footnoteA{This is a nice footnote.%
    \footnoteB{Another footnote.%
        \footnoteC{Even one more footnote.%
            \footnoteD{Omg, when does this end?%
                \footnoteE{Please stop!%
                    \footnoteF{Ok, fine... Just this last one!}
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
\end{document}