Hello, As discussed previously, I pushed changes about footnotes in a dedicated branch, "wip-no-plain-fn", for testing.
In a nutshell, in this branch, Org no longer recognizes [1]-like constructs as valid footnotes, an no longer spend time matching them. As a consequence, "fn:" can now be unambiguously removed from label and become part of the syntax. Thus, [fn:1] is labelled "1" and [fn:label] is labelled "label". In the process, I had to rewrite `org-footnote-normalize', which used to turn every footnote in a document into [1]-like footnotes. Now, it turns them into [fn:1] footnotes. However, this function also contained a part dealing with non-Org buffers, e.g. just before sending an email, this function could turn Org footnotes into footnote.el-compatible footnotes. This is no longer present currently in the branch. I don't really mind adding it back, but it ought to be a separate function, with a different design. It is not really possible to treat non-Org buffers as Org ones (cf. `orgstruct-mode' problems). However, before spending time on it, I'd like to know if there is any incentive to use it over, e.g. `footnote-mode' right from the start? Feedback welcome. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou 0x80A93738
