reusable-footnotes: one footnote per source on each printed page
I released reusable-footnotes, a Quarto extension for a convention of printed scholarly writing — common in Law, but also in History and the Humanities — where references go in page footnotes. When the same source is cited twice on a page, the note should print once; when it is cited again on a later page, it should print again there, so the reader never has to turn back.
Authors keep writing ordinary Pandoc footnotes. The extension recognises repeated notes and makes each physical footnote local to its page, with numbering that either continues through the document or restarts on every page. In PDF it relies on the LaTeX packages fixfoot and perpage, so the real page is known after layout. Word paginates only after Pandoc has finished, so in DOCX the pages are delimited by explicit Quarto page breaks, and a bundled reference document makes Word restart its footnote counter on each page. In HTML every rendered page owns its notes, and websites and books can still number them continuously across pages.
For bibliographic notes, the repository includes Fred Guth’s bibentry extension under its MIT licence, so a full CSL reference can go inside a footnote from the same BibTeX entry used for ordinary citations.
Documentation and live website and book examples for each numbering mode: https://lsbjordao.github.io/quarto-reusable-footnotes/