Re: how to renumber footnotes?

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

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Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:

> On 17.04.20 05:58, Sharon Kimble wrote:
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>> Please, can someone help me sort out an org-mode footnote problem?
>>
>> 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,
>> so how do I do it please?
>>
>> (The footnote numbers I've shown are purely arbitrary, some files that
>> I'm wanting to do this with have up to 700 footnotes in their combined
>
> Make sure there is only one footnote-section at the end of file and all fn appear in correct order:
>
> (defun ar-org-footnote-renumber-intern ()
>   (let ((c 0))
>     (while (re-search-forward org-footnote-re nil t)
>       (backward-char 2)
>       (when (looking-at "[0-9]+")
>     (replace-match (number-to-string (cl-incf c)))))))
>
> (defun ar-org-footnote-renumber ()
>   "Renumber footnotes."
>   (interactive "*")
>   (save-restriction
>     (widen)
>     (goto-char (point-min))
>     (when (re-search-forward "^* Footnotes" nil t)
>       ;; first renumber fns in text section, afterwards the
>       ;; fn-definitions
>       (save-restriction
>     (narrow-to-region (point-min) (line-beginning-position))
>     (goto-char (point-min))
>     (ar-org-footnote-renumber-intern)
>     (widen)
>     (when (re-search-forward "^* Footnotes" nil t)
>       (narrow-to-region (line-beginning-position) (point-max))
>       (goto-char (point-min))
>       (ar-org-footnote-renumber-intern))))))
>

Thanks Andreas, but all my footnotes are inline. Perhaps I should've
said that earlier on, sorry!

Perhaps I could put them at the end but I'm too tired at the moment to
think about it, but plenty of time at the weekend, hooray!

Thanks
  Sharon.  
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