Hello, Gerald Wildgruber <gerald.wildgru...@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, -- Nicolas Goaziou
