Re: Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]

From: Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 08:19:03 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100901081903.613ca266.alantyree@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1D6BEB21-B559-469F-996D-F50C3CB0E31E@gmail.com>

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:09:58 +0200
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Aidan,
> 
> unfortunately this is difficult to fix in a good way.
> I do want to go back to footnotes, because I think there are many  
> things that do not yet work satisfactorily.  And then I also hope to  
> address the issue you raised.  For the time being, unfortunately, I
> do not have a solution for you.

I also have problems with footnotes. Jan Boecker kindly devised a
work-around using non-printing spaces which is OK, but what I would like
is:

Disable footnotes like [2010], but keep footnotes like [fn:2010]

The reason is that I write legal texts that have references to case law
that look like: Marreco v Richardson [1908] 2 KB 584. The dates in
square brackets are an essential part of the reference.

f:nil in the Options seems to disable all footnotes rather than just
the [2010] type. The documentation is slightly misleading on this.
Under "Export options" it says:

f:	turn on/off footnotes like this[1].

I seem to be living more and more in org-mode. Thanks for such great
software!

Alan

> 
> - Carsten
> 
> On Aug 31, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Aidan Gauland wrote:
> 
> > It is impossible to have closing brackets in a footnote, because
> > they are treated as the closing bracket for the foot note.
> > Example...
> >
> > * A heading
> > This is a broken footnote.[fn:: Some book at [42-24].]
> >
> > This will export to (as ASCII, for example)...
> >                          org-fn-bug-example
> >                          ==================
> >
> > Author: Aidan Gauland
> > Date: 2010-08-31 20:33:14 NZST
> >
> >
> > Table of Contents
> > =================
> > 1 A heading
> >
> >
> > 1 A heading
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > This is a broken footnote.[1].]
> >
> > This will export to (as ASCII, for example)...
> >
> > [1] Some book at [42-24
> >
> > This is how I am required to cite books for my academic essays, so  
> > this
> > is a pretty serious bug for me (and no doubt other students, as
> > well).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Aidan Gauland
> >
> > Emacs  : GNU Emacs 24.0.50.6 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+
> > Version 2.20.1)
> > of 2010-08-29 on dimension8
> > Package: Org-mode version 7.01trans
> >
> > current state:
> > ==============
> > (setq
> > org-export-latex-after-initial-vars-hook
> > '(org-beamer-after-initial- vars)
> > org-agenda-files '("~/uc-files/uc-work.org")
> > org-agenda-include-diary t
> > org-completion-use-iswitchb t
> > org-completion-use-ido t
> > org-metaup-hook '(org-babel-load-in-session-maybe)
> > org-after-todo-state-change-hook '(org-clock-out-if-current)
> > org-export-blocks-postblock-hook '(org-exp-res/src-name-cleanup)
> > org-export-latex-format-toc-function 'org-export-latex-format-toc- 
> > default
> > org-export-preprocess-hook '(org-export-blocks-preprocess)
> > org-tab-first-hook '(org-hide-block-toggle-maybe
> > org-babel-hide-result-toggle-maybe)
> > org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-babel-configure-edit-buffer
> > org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer)
> > org-confirm-shell-link-function 'yes-or-no-p
> > org-export-first-hook '(org-beamer-initialize-open-trackers)
> > org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text)
> > org-cycle-hook '(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees org-cycle-hide- 
> > drawers
> > org-cycle-show-empty-lines
> > 									org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change)
> > org-export-preprocess-before-normalizing-links-hook
> > '(org-remove-file-link-modifiers)
> > org-mode-hook '(#[nil "\300\301\302\303\304$\207"
> > 									 [org-add-hook
> > change-major-mode-hook org-show-block-all append local] 5]
> > 								 #[nil
> > 								 #"\300
> > 								 #\301
> > 								 #\302
> > 								 #\303
> > 								 #\304
> > 								 #$
> > 								 #\207"
> > 									 [org-add-hook
> > change-major-mode-hook org-babel-show-result- all
> > append local] 5]
> > 								 org-babel-result-hide-spec
> > org-babel-hide-all-hashes) org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c-hook
> > '(org-babel-hash-at-point org-babel-execute- safely-maybe)
> > org-confirm-elisp-link-function 'yes-or-no-p
> > org-export-interblocks '((lob org-babel-exp-lob-one-liners) (src
> > org-babel-exp-inline-src-blocks))
> > org-occur-hook '(org-first-headline-recenter)
> > org-outline-path-complete-in-steps nil
> > org-export-preprocess-before-selecting-backend-code-hook
> > '(org-beamer-select-beamer-code)
> > org-export-latex-final-hook '(org-beamer-amend-header
> > org-beamer-fix- toc
> > org-beamer-auto-fragile-frames
> > 															 org-beamer-place-default-actions-for-lists)
> > org-metadown-hook '(org-babel-pop-to-session-maybe)
> > org-export-blocks '((src org-babel-exp-src-blocks nil) (comment
> > org-export-blocks-format-comment t)
> > 										 (ditaa
> > org-export-blocks-format-ditaa nil) (dot
> > org-export-blocks-format-dot nil)) )
> >
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> 
> - Carsten
> 
> 
> 
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