Re: Bad footnotes when including org files

[Xavier Garrido <xavier.garrido@gmail.com>]

Hi James,

Thanks for your answer. Maybe I will try your solution. Otherwise I will 
run a "before-parse-hook" to change fn:XX to something unique (by adding 
buffer name for example.

Thanks again,
Xavier

Le 16/03/2014 02:32, James Harkins a écrit :
> Xavier Garrido <xavier.garrido <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> Hi Orgers,
>>
>> I am having some troubles with several org files that I want to include
>> into one general org file. To do that I use the #+INCLUDE: keywords and
>> actually, everything is working well until I add some footnotes in both
>> files. Let me show you a minimal example where the footnote numbering is
>> getting weird
>>
>> When I export to LaTeX the latest file, I get two footnotes with the
>> same number. The problem can be solved by changing the label of the
>> second footnote to [fn:2] but it means that I have to reorganize and
>> reorder footnotes within all the org files I will include. I am
>> wondering if it is possible to run, for example,
>> =org-footnote-renumber-fn:N= function when including files in such way
>> the user will not have to take care footnote labels.
>
> I had exactly this problem in a big project. Poking around the customization
> group org-footnote, I found:
>
> Org Footnote Auto Label: Value Menu Create a random label
>     State: SAVED and set.
>     Non-nil means define automatically new labels for footnotes.
>     Possible values are:
>
>     nil        Prompt the user for each label.
>     t          Create unique labels of the form [fn:1], [fn:2], etc.
>     confirm    Like t, but let the user edit the created value.
>                The label can be removed from the minibuffer to create
>                an anonymous footnote.
>     random	   Automatically generate a unique, random label.
>     plain      Automatically create plain number labels like [1].
>
> I switched to random labels, and no problem since then.
>
> I don't find any evidence of a function that will automatically switch
> existing footnotes to random IDs, though, and I'm afraid I'm short of time
> this morning. It should be possible, but I guess nobody has done it.
>
> But, do set the custom var to use random labels. It will prevent the problem
> for all new footnotes.
>
> hjh
>
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