Re: Footnotes and org-export, revisited

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

Hi Matt,

the bug is fixed now, thanks for the report.

Also, you can set org-footnote-section to nil
if you want non-inline footnotes to be defined
in the outline node where they are referenced, instead
of a special outline node "Footnotes".

- Carsten

On Jan 1, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Matthew Lundin wrote:

>
> Hi Carsten,
>
> First of all, let me say thank you for this wonderful addition to
> org-mode. I will certainly do more of my writing in org-mode now.
> Incredible!
>
> I've tested the new footnote feature and can get everything to work
> except anonymous footnotes. When using more than one anonymous
> footnote, all subsequent anonymous footnotes are exported with the
> number of the first footnote and their notes are lost. (The same
> happens when normalizing footnotes in org-mode.) I've included the
> source and output below. At the moment, I'm using Emacs 22.2.1 (Carbon
> Emacs).
>
> Happy New Year!
>
> - Matt
>
> -----------
>
> A. Here is the org source:
>
> --begin source--
>
> * Testing the new footnotes function
>
> Here is a footnote.[fn:: The first anonymous footnote.] And here is
> another footnote.[fn:: The second anonymous footnote.] And a third
> anonymous footnote.[fn:: The third anonymous footnote.] Now a footnote
> with a definition.[fn:label] Here is the footnote with a
> definition.[fn:special: Inline definition.] Here is a reference to
> that same footnote.[fn:special] And a traditional numbered
> footnote.[2]
>
> [fn:label] Named footnote.
>
> [2] Numbered footnote.
>
> --end source--
>
> B. Here's what the exported html looks like (copied from w3m):
>
> ---begin exported html---
>
> Table of Contents
>
>  * 1 Testing the new footnotes function
>
> 1 Testing the new footnotes function
>
> Here is a footnote.^1 And here is another footnote.^1 And a third
> anonymous footnote.^1 Now a footnote with a definition.^2 Here is the
> footnote with a definition.^3 Here is a reference to that same
> footnote.^3 And a traditional numbered footnote.^4
>
> Footnotes:
>
> ^1 The first anonymous footnote.
>
> ^2 Named footnote.
>
> ^3 Inline definition.
>
> ^4 Numbered footnote.
>
> ---end exported html---
>
> C. Finally, here are the results when I normalize the footnotes in
> org-mode:
>
> * Testing the new footnotes function
>
> Here is a footnote.[1] And here is another footnote.[1] And a third
> anonymous footnote.[1] Now a footnote with a definition.[2] Here is
> the footnote with a definition.[3] Here is a reference to that same
> footnote.[3] And a traditional numbered footnote.[4]
>
> * Footnotes
>
> [1] The first anonymous footnote.
>
> [2] Named footnote.
>
> [3] Inline definition.
>
> [4] Numbered footnote.
>
> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the result of this discussion about footnotes is now
>> in the latest git version, see
>>
>> http://orgmode.org/Changes.html#sec-1.1.1
>>
>> for more information.
>>
>> - Carsten