Continuous Footnote Numbering in LaTeX

By default LaTeX starts the footnote counter at zero for each chapter when you use the class {book} or {scrbook}. If you want to avoid that and have a continuous enumeration, here is how it works:

Create a folder <remreset> in your local package repository. Save the file remreset.sty into this folder.

Open your preamble and add

Should you get an error message like this

or like this

embrace the stuff with \makeatletter and \makeatother:

Voilà.