I don't know if this package is required to make this happen.
\usepackage[bottom]{footmisc}
I reset the footnote counter on every chapter.
\makeatletter
\@addtoreset{footnote}{chapter}
I want to use "lower-case" alpha for my footnotes. This limits me to 26 per chapter, which should be sufficient...
\mainmatter
\renewcommand*{\thefootnote}{\alph{footnote}}
I want to prepend the chapter number in the footnotetext superscript, but not in the inline superscript.
Here is^a some text from^b chapter one.
Here^a is some text^b from chapter^c two.
Which in the footnotes below would render as...
^{1a} Text for footnote a in chapter one.
^{1b} Text for footnote b in chapter one.
^{2a} Text for footnote a in chapter two.
^{2b} Text for footnote b in chapter two.
^{2c} Text for footnote c in chapter two.
where the "chapter" counter is used for the prepend. I tried:
\renewcommand*{\thefootnote}{\thechapter\alph{footnote}}
but that prepends in the inline text and the footnote below. I only want it below.
This link suggests I can reformat the \renewcommand{\@makefntext}[1]{%
...
I have a two-column setup, and two chapters could appear on the same page. Ideally, I would like only the first element^a of each chapter to have the prepend, possibly with the chapter number in bold.
^{1a} Text for footnote a in chapter one.
^{b} Text for footnote b in chapter one.
^{2a} Text for footnote a in chapter two.
^{b} Text for footnote b in chapter two.
^{c} Text for footnote c in chapter two.