Sharon Kimble <boudic...@skimble.plus.com> writes: > I now have '#+STARTUP: fnadjust' in the preamble immediately below the > title, author and date fields and this reorders the footnote list so it > is now going [fn:1] [fn:2] [fn:3] etc, and adds the new footnote at the > end of the list. There is a slight pause whilst its reordering but then > it works just fine.
Hm, I see that that is a per-file setting for the global variable org-footnote-auto-adjust, which I have set to t. Apparently its default value is nil. That might be why I've never seen them in reverse order, since I guess I've had this enabled for as long as I can remember.