[Orgmode] Re: Footnotes and org-export, revisited

[Paul R]

Hi Scot,

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:52:59 +0000, "Scot Becker" <address@hidden> said:

Scot> But someone working in Muse did write an interesting extension to
Scot> Muse's footnote support. (The extension is explained here [5], and
Scot> the revised version of the code is here [6]). It is basically
Scot> a hook function which converts footnotes with reference
Scot> names[fn:named_note] to plain, numbered footnotes, like Muse and
Scot> org-mode support. It operates on a temporary buffer just before
Scot> export to LaTeX or HTML, so is transparent to the user.

I'm the author of this little hack. I've not found any other simple way
to handle footnote, and in particular in spite of my efforts, I did
never manage to have footnote+ working reliably.

I think all the suggestions you make in your mail make sens. In any
case, I think the solution must behave like latex (and like my hack).
This means in org documents footnotes sould be either anonymous, like in
latex \footnote{footnote content ...} or named by keyword, not by
ordered numbers. That way, you can preserve the flow of your writing and
keep easy to look both at the reference and the definition. And,
obviously, you don't renumber everything each time you insert a new
footnote.

My personnal vote goes to anonymous footnotes, like in latex.

-- 
  Paul