Re: how to renumber footnotes?

[Giovanni Bono <giovanni.bono@unimi.it>]

Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> writes:

> [...]
>
>> org-footnote can't tell that footnote 1 ([fn:1]) at the beginning is in
>> the right place when confronted with footnote 1 ([fn:1]) half-way
>> through! Which is why I'm looking for some other solution, and I believe
>> that it might be able to be achieved programmatically. Unfortunately my
>> lisp skills are almost nil, hence my request for someone to help.
>
> Ah!
>
> Suppose file A has 372 footnotes, and B has another x. I would create a
> macro that I start just ahead of the second [fn:1], and that adds 372 to
> [fn:1] so it becomes [fn:373] and repeat that to x.
>
> It might take you a few tries, but something like put point at the
> second [fn:1] c-X ( to start recording the macro, search for [fn: copy
> the 1 (+ "yank" 273) paste (<-- I'm missing a step here, I bet), and
> then end the macro-recording with C-x ).

An even simpler manual solution could be adding a sentence with 372
footnotes at the beginning of file-b and merging the relevant part of
file-b with file-a.  Maybe with something like:

(let ((org-footnote-define-inline t)
      (org-footnote-auto-adjust t))
  (dotimes (x 371)
    (insert (concat "a [fn:" (number-to-string (1+ x)) ":a] "))))

Regards,

  Giovanni