Re: how to convert/normalize plain footnotes into [fn:] ones

[Gerald Wildgruber <Gerald.Wildgruber@unibas.ch>]

Hi Nicolas,

thanks:

I had actually tried that already and came up with the following regex:

\([^ ]\)\(\[\)\([0-9]\) --> \1\2fn:\3

i.e. three groupings: 1) no whitespace, 2) "[" and 3) a number, and then
introducing "fn:" between "[" and the number: but it is not perfect, as
it still gives false positives; do you have something better?

The problem unfortunately arises also by pandoc still using the now
obsolete syntax of plain footnotes when converting (e.g. latex) to org
mode!


Gerald.


On Mi, Dez 21 2016, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Gerald Wildgruber <Gerald.Wildgruber@unibas.ch> writes:
>
>> I'm trying to convert older orgmode documents which have plain,
>> "[1]"-like footnotes into the newer "[fn:]" format.
>>
>> Can this be done automatically?
>
> You could use `query-replace-regexp' a.k.a. C-M-%.
>
>> Nicolas mentions "org-footnote-normalize" which would turn old footnotes
>> in new ones, but it does nothing in my case except adding a "*
>> Footnotes" entry.
>
> You misunderstood. `org-footnote-normalize' used to turn every footnote
> into [1], [2], ... whereas it now turns them into [fn:1], [fn:2],... IOW
> it cannot be used to convert from old syntax to new one.
>
> Regards,


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