how to renumber footnotes?

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

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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
files, others over a thousand!)

Thanks
  Sharon.  
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