Hi Gareth Actually bidipoem knows how to handle footnotes in general so you actually do not need to use a combination of \footnotemark and footnotetext (see atached sample), however the situation that Heba is describing is more complex and a combination of \footnotemark and \footnotetext is necessary.
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