\documentclass{article} \usepackage{pslatex} \begin{document} Here is a footnote.\footnote{Stuff.} This is text followed by a footnote.\footnote{In this note I make some point which I will want to refer to from another location, so I label it.\label{bar}} Here is some intervening and unrelated footnote.\footnote{{\fontencoding{OT1}\fontfamily{cmr}\fontshape{it}\selectfont{}The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog}} Here is the place where I want to refer to the same footnote as before, which I labelled `bar'.\footnotemark[\ref{bar}] \end{document}