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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: Difference between org-footnote.el and footnote.el
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Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote:


> > BTW suggest to replace the common footnote by the org's footnotes, remove the
> > prefix then, leave some aliases in org-mode for backward-compatibility.
> 
> Well, I don't have a strong opinion on that.  But currently
> org-footnote.el is not very good when writing mails, because it places
> footnotes at the end of a buffer.  If there's a signature, then
> footnotes are in that and likely to be removed by people replying to
> your mail.
> 

How does footnote.el find the signature? I assumed before that
signatures are free-form and therefore unfindable algorithmically, but
that seems to be a mistake on my part. If that's the case, the
mechanism can be grafted into org-footnote.el, perhaps with an expanded
meaning of org-footnote-placement: in addition to nil or a string, it
can be a symbol, say 'before-signature, and that can be set in an appropriate
mail composition hook.

Nick