On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 10:21 pm, Laura Creighton wrote:
> 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:
[...]
> 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
Thanks.
Especially useful is the ability to label footnotes so that they can be
auto-numbered while still being able to refer to them from multiple places:
If [#note]_ is the first footnote reference, it will show up as
"[1]". We can refer to it again as [#note]_ and again see
"[1]". We can also refer to it as note_ (an ordinary internal
hyperlink reference).
.. [#note] This is the footnote labeled "note".
That's the problem I was trying to solve by manual numbering.
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