> Here are the LaTeX macros that I use.
Seeing a concrete example helps. Helps avoid speculation. I don't
understand Latex, so I will speculate ...
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> Provided the documents are in order, the buyer must pay. This is so
> even if it is known that the goods have been lost at sea. For example,
> in \cdx{Manbre Saccharine Co Ltd v Corn Products Co Ltd}{[1919] 1
> KB 198} the defendants sold American pearl starch to the plaintiffs
> on CIF London terms.
> #+END_EXAMPLE
Seems like a heretical form of Inline footnotes to me. I would suggest
that you "fake" a Bibliography entry in a *.bib file and use JabRef to
create your "References" or "Endnotes".
> but I haven't used it with book length writing that requires
> indexes.
You need to just command the machine to do the export :-)
> Obviously would be nice, but I can submit the chapters
> separate from the indexes so it may not be necessary.
As a side-note, I would like to at some point in time add support for
*.odm.
> both approaches would require quite a bit of markup to go back into
> the main part of the manuscript.
A markup is markup. The markup I suggest is paragraph-oriented - which
Org is good at. The markup that you have resorted to is
span/inline-style at which Org sucks.
> This is what I'm trying to avoid since the publisher and editors have
> always required Word.
Why get caught in specifics of Markup when all you want is a Word or a
OpenDocument format or even a plain text format.
In the grand scheme of things, insisting plain text or Org or Word
doesn't really matter. If you want and do get Word, then markup - Org
or otherwise - doesn't matter.
> I have (I think) got them to agree to accept plain text, but I would
> like to make it just as plain as possible.
Oh, Ok. Looks like there is "exchange of ideas" between the author and
publisher...
> Paragraphs in the text may refer to many cases, so I don't think your
> suggestions will meet that goal.
Seems like Citation or Footnote to me.
