On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 11:49:32AM -0600, aroz...@gmail.com wrote: > Most of my writing is academic and involves lots of footnotes. Sometimes it > is useful to be able to combine two separate files, each of which have > footnotes. How do I do so in a way that automatically renumbers the > footnotes in the file that comes second? > > More specifically, I have file1.org and file2.org, and each of them have > three footnotes ([fn:1], [fn:2], and [fn:3]). I want to create file3.org, > which simply merges file1.org and file2.org, with the contents of file2.org > coming after the contents of file1.org. The problem is that the footnote > calls ([fn:#]) in the file2 section will end up pointing the file1 > footnotes. What I really want is to automatically renumber all the > footnotes [fn:1]...[fn:6], but I don't know how to do this, given that org > permits multiple footnote calls to the same footnote.
Is this a case where bibliographic tools like Bibtex come into play? Would "anonymous" footnotes help, then Org can dynamically number them? ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3
