From 3ff650e8b03f7077d985a3654d66c7433aa56f50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Dunning <adunning@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 01:09:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add note on footnote number restart

---
 MANUAL.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/MANUAL.txt b/MANUAL.txt
index c82c07aac3bd..97980631c9b1 100644
--- a/MANUAL.txt
+++ b/MANUAL.txt
@@ -1123,7 +1123,8 @@ header when requesting a document from a URL:
     remain as their default type.
 
     In Docx output, this option adds section breaks before first-level
-    headings if `chapter` is selected.
+    headings if `chapter` is selected. Footnote numbers will restart
+    with each section break unless the reference doc modifies this.
 
 `-N`, `--number-sections=[true|false]`