Hello, Rob Stewart <robstewar...@gmail.com> writes:
> And just as soon as I send this email, I find the answer: [num] syntax for footnotes is indeed a pain. However, the solution below is really a kludge because some parts of Org (or external libraries) could hard-code it anyway. > (setq org-footnote-re > (concat "\\[\\(?:" > ;; Match inline footnotes. > (org-re "fn:\\([-_[:word:]]+\\)?:\\|") > ;; Match other footnotes. > ;; "\\(?:\\([0-9]+\\)\\]\\)\\|" > (org-re "\\(fn:[-_[:word:]]+\\)") > "\\)")) > > (setq org-footnote-definition-re > (org-re "^\\[\\(fn:[-_[:word:]]+\\)\\]")) > > From http://stackoverflow.com/a/25342297/1526266 . >From an export perspective, you can turn these footnotes back into regular text at the parse tree level: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (defun my-ignore-false-footnotes (ast backend info) (org-element-map ast 'footnote-reference (lambda (f) (let ((label (org-element-property :label f))) (when (org-string-match-p "\\`[0-9]+\\'" label) (org-element-set-element f (concat "[" label "]" (make-string (org-element-property :post-blank f) ?\s))))))) ast) (add-to-list org-export-filter-parse-tree-functions #'my-ignore-false-footnotes) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
