Re: how to renumber footnotes?

[Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>]

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Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> writes:

> On 17 April 2020 06:12 Emanuel Berg, wrote:
>
>> Sharon Kimble wrote:
>>
>>> I have 2 org-mode documents called 'file-a' and
>>> 'file-b', and both have got several hundred footnotes
>>> starting with 1. I'm adding file-b on to the end of
>>> file-a, and trying to renumber the footnotes, so that
>>> even if file-a has 354 footnotes, and file-b has 421
>>> footnotes, the whole file renumbers the footnotes and
>>> continues on from 354 to 355, 356, 357, etc
>>> and onwards.
>>>
>>> But how can I do this please? The org-mode footnote
>>> program can't do it [...]
>
> I'm not seeing the whole message here, and perhaps you tried this
> already:
>
> "prefix argument C-c C-x f r"[enumber] and once more, with s[ort]
>
> and if so, did that not work?

To achieve the footnote menu you need to do 'C-u C-c C-x f r', and
neither does footnote renumber or footnote sort achieve my desired aim.

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.

Thanks
  Sharon.  
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