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Re: [Orgmode] Footnotes and org-export, revisited
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Matthew Lundin |
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Re: [Orgmode] Footnotes and org-export, revisited |
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Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:53:29 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (darwin) |
Hi Carsten,
Thanks for the quick response. I've written a couple of additional
comments below.
Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Matt, thanks for this much needed feedback. I was already working
> into the direction of some of your proposals, but certainly not all.
>
> On Jan 2, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Matthew Lundin wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for alerting me to this option. I'm assuming that
>> org-footnote-section is meant to control the initial placement of
>> non-inline footnotes and not their placement after sorting or
>> normalizing. (When I sort or normalize the footnotes, they are placed
>> at the end of the last section of the outline.) Would it be possible
>> to have this option also control the placement of sorted footnotes?
>> I.e., during sorting or normalizing, footnotes would be placed in the
>> outline section corresponding to their reference.
>
> Yes, this would be much more consistent. Now it does this,
> sorting will move each definition to the entry of the first
> reference, if org-footnote-section is nil.
>
This is great! I did notice a couple of quirks when
org-footnote-section is set to nil.
A. If there is no empty line at the end of a section or the end of the
buffer, org-footnote-action inserts the footnote above the reference.
As in the following example:
----begin org file-----
* Headline one
[fn:1] Org-footnote-action inserts footnote above the reference.
A footnote inserted with no space the bottom of a section.[fn:1]
* Headline two
One empty line at the bottom of this section.[fn:2]
[fn:2]
* Headline three
[fn:3] Again, same behavior as first footnote.
No space at the bottom of buffer.[fn:3]
----end org file-----
B. If one of the footnotes is directly above a headline (i.e., no
intervening empty line), it does not get sorted with C-u C-c C-x f s.
-----begin original org file-----
* Headline one
Here is a footnote.[fn:1] And here is another footnote.[fn:2] And here
is a third footnote.[fn:3]
[fn:3] Footnote three
[fn:1] Footnote one.
[fn:2] Footnote two.
* Headline two
-----end original org file-------
And after sorting:
-----begin sorted footnotes file------
* Headline one
Here is a footnote.[fn:1] And here is another footnote.[fn:2] And here
is a third footnote.[fn:3]
[fn:1] Footnote one.
[fn:3] Footnote three
[fn:2] Footnote two.
* Headline two
-----end sorted footnotes file------
>> C. The in-buffer conversion from inline footnotes to numbered
>> footnotes is fantastic for creating readable documents. It might be a
>> nice feature to have a similar conversion in reverse: that is, from
>> non-inline footnotes to inline footnotes?
>>
>> The chief rationale for such a feature would be to make footnotes
>> portable from one org-mode file to another.
>
> Isn't the new sorting good enough for this? I am uncomfortable with
> letting a program doing so much complex editing. I think it will
> break too often.
Yes, I see how this could be a very dangerous feature, since if it
breaks, it might have ruinous effects. And I see that this would be
redundant, as the sorting option already accomplishes this quite
nicely.
> Thanks, please keep testing and the feedback coming.
I most certainly will!
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, thanks again for all
your work on org-mode!
Matt
- Re: [Orgmode] Footnotes and org-export, revisited, Carsten Dominik, 2009/01/01
- Re: [Orgmode] Footnotes and org-export, revisited, Matthew Lundin, 2009/01/01
- Re: [Orgmode] Footnotes and org-export, revisited, Carsten Dominik, 2009/01/01
- Re: [Orgmode] Footnotes and org-export, revisited, Matthew Lundin, 2009/01/02
- Re: [Orgmode] Footnotes and org-export, revisited, Carsten Dominik, 2009/01/03
- Re: [Orgmode] Footnotes and org-export, revisited,
Matthew Lundin <=
- Re: [Orgmode] Footnotes and org-export, revisited, Carsten Dominik, 2009/01/04
- Re: [Orgmode] Footnotes and org-export, revisited, Scot Becker, 2009/01/12
- [Orgmode] Re: Footnotes and org-export, revisited, Paul R, 2009/01/12