Here is how the file is laid out:
- H1
- A series of body text paragraphs, most of which begin with a number 1–n
- To some of these, footnotes unique to this specific file, using the *, †, ‡, § system, starting anew for each page.
- A series of body text paragraphs, most of which begin with a number 1–n
I was able to reproduce the error (ɔ: not get it to go away) several times. The error was only present for the final paragraph, and not even reloading the file solved it. But then I by accident added a linebreak at the end of the final paragraph in the original document, and when pasting that the error disappeared, correctly referencing the missing footnote from the original file.
So here is how I did it:
- I finished writing the cross-referenced translations in the original file.
- I pasted the new lines into the appendix.
- The final paragraph changed the final cross-reference to point to an (assumed) random footnote in the new document, despite this being a symbol footnote, not a numerical footnote.
- After numerous retries at pasting both that single paragraph as well as that final paragraph and some of the paragraphs from above, I added a line-break at the end of the final paragraph in the original document.
- I pasted the paragraph(s) with the added linebreak after the final line, and the error disappeared
- I was able to repeat it a few times, but after saving I could not reproduce the error.