samcarter
Assume I have an article with a couple of footnotes
```
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
test\footnote{text}
\newpage
test\footnote{text}
\end{document}
```
How to resume the footnote counter from this document in another one, e.g. the next document should continue with footnote 3
Top Answer
samcarter
One can use the `totcount` package to store the footnote counter in an auxiliary file:
```
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{totcount}
\regtotcounter[auxfile=\jobname.tot]{footnote}
\begin{document}
test\footnote{text}
\newpage
test\footnote{text}
\end{document}
```
```
\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\input{document.tot}
\addtocounter{footnote}{\thefootnote@totc}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
test\footnote{text}
\end{document}
```