[comp.text.tex] \cite versus \footnote question

sommer@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU (01/05/91)

A while back I asked about this but I guess there was some confusion
about my Q about an alternative \cite or \footnote command. (The
numbers below are \footnotesize superscripts and the footnote itself
is also \footnotesize). 

DESIRED OUTPUT:

                     1
     This is my text.
     [...]
 
     -----------
     1
      This is footnote text at the bottom of the page.
 
     [sometime later, even on another page ...]  
                                                1
     I want to refer to the first footnote again  and get the right 
     number superscripted again.


POSSIBLE SOURCE 1:
     This is my text.\footnote{\label{foo} This is footnote text at the bottom
     of the page.} [...]
   
     I want to refer to the first footnote again$^{\ref{foo}}$ [...]
PROBLEM WITH 1: \label doesn't work with \footnote

POSSIBLE SOURCE 2:
     This is my text.\cite{foo} [...]
     
     I want to refer to the first footnote again\cite{foo} [...]
   
     \begin{\thebibliography}{00}
     \bibitem{foo}{This is footnote text at the bottom of the page.}
     [...]
     \end{\thebibliography}
PROBLEM WITH 2: \cite normally produces a text-like section called
References at the place in the text where \begin{\thebibliography}{00} is
invoked. (I already have several cite modifications that use superscripted
footnotemarks instead of bracketed [1] numbers in the text.)

``IDEAL'' SOURCE?
     This is my text.\citefoot{foo} [...]

     I want to refer to the first footnote again\citefoot{foo} [...]

     [to generate .aux output, do these \citems have to be in some sort of 
          new environment???]
     \begin{\thecitems}
     \citem{foo}{This is footnote text at the bottom of the page.}
     [...]
     \end{\thecitems}
PROBLEM WITH IDEAL SOURCE: If \citefoot - \citem exists, I am unaware of
it. Does anyone have anything like this? Is it ftp'able or mailable?

Thanks in advance.