Reusing the same footnote multiple times

[jpmorr]

Hi,

I'm trying to reuse a footnote in multiple places in a book chapter like so:

The force in the x direction of the beam [^*]
...
...
...
The torque in the x direction of the beam [^*]
...

[^*]: equal and opposite at each end

Two problems - you can't use symbols/letters it seems (#1741) which I would prefer. Ignoring that; when I render the document it creates a new footnote for each time I have used it in the document instead of just having the one expected footnote.

How do I fix this behaviour and reuse the footnote?

[jjallaire]

This is unfortunately a limitation of Pandoc (our markdown rendering engine). You can see the discussion here: jgm/pandoc#1603

[jpmorr]

Annoyingly after 8 years it's still not resolved - it can't be that complicated!! Thanks for the answer.