In a message of Sat, 03 Oct 2015 21:39:26 +1000, "Steven D'Aprano" writes: >I have a document written in Restructured Text format, and I use lots of >footnotes: > > blah blah blah [1]_ and blah blah blah [2]_. > blah blah [3]_ blah ... blah blah > blah blah [999]_. > > .. [1] fe > .. [2] fi > .. [3] fo > ... > .. [999] fum > > >I need to add a footnote between [2] and [3], but I don't want to have to >renumber the following 997 footnotes by hand. Is there something I can do, >within the syntax of ReST itself, to help? > > >-- >Steven
You shouldn't have numbered them manually in the first place. Use '#' instead to get automatic numbered footnotes. http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#footnote-references Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
