From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Re: A few questions about how you write e-mails Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:40:17 -0400 Message-ID: <11775.1287632417@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <87tykgxqbb.fsf@fastmail.fm> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34149 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8m14-0002qi-OI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:40:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8m13-0005FG-DK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:40:34 -0400 Received: from vms173001pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.1]:48946) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8m13-0005FB-4j for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:40:33 -0400 Received: from gamaville.dokosmarshall.org ([unknown] [173.76.32.106]) by vms173001.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0LAM006IYFJ5J410@vms173001.mailsrvcs.net> for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:40:18 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: Message from suvayu ali of "Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:47:37 PDT." List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: suvayu ali Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, Matt Lundin , Org-mode ml , Jeff Horn suvayu ali wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > On 20 October 2010 18:55, Matt Lundin wrote: > > I simply have a global binding for org-footnote-action, which enables me > > to insert footnotes anywhere.[1] > > > > I do that too, but it shows up as [fn:1] for me. Is there some > variable I can customise to get it as [1] when I am using it outside > org-mode? > There is a variable (of course!): ,---- | org-footnote-auto-label is a variable defined in `org-footnote.el'. | Its value is t | | Documentation: | Non-nil means define automatically new labels for footnotes. | Possible values are: | | nil prompt the user for each label | t create unique labels of the form [fn:1], [fn:2], ... | confirm like t, but let the user edit the created value. In particular, | the label can be removed from the minibuffer, to create | an anonymous footnote. | plain Automatically create plain number labels like [1] | | You can customize this variable. `---- but how to use it in the way you specify is left as an exercise for the interested reader. > Also in my case, the footnotes appear below the signature. I have to > manually move it above that before sending the email. Would be awesome > if org-footnote-action understood signatures somehow. > Given the mangling that mailers do to replies (e.g. the idiotic default top posting of Thunderbird and its ilk), how they handle signatures, and the non-standard nature of signatures themselves, I'd say this is pretty much hopeless. At least the end is a well defined place that org-footnote-action can always find. The rest are shifting sands. Of course, if you use a nice primitive mailer[1] where *you* do all the placement the way *you* like it, that's no problem at all. I can add all the footnotes I want, then M-> C-c C-s, done (that is, if I *had* a signature, which I don't - and M-> is always right, since I (almost) never top-post). Footnotes: [1] E.g. mh-e :-) Nick