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From: Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to combine two org files that each have footnotes?
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 19:26:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210211182637.GD8384@maokai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJniy+NWTDUVFe-UvavAbAtEpcugGf4hRAzGayWn0XxqXisQHg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 11:49:32AM -0600, arozbiz@gmail.com wrote:
> Most of my writing is academic and involves lots of footnotes. Sometimes it
> is useful to be able to combine two separate files, each of which have
> footnotes. How do I do so in a way that automatically renumbers the
> footnotes in the file that comes second?
>
> More specifically, I have file1.org and file2.org, and each of them have
> three footnotes ([fn:1], [fn:2], and [fn:3]). I want to create file3.org,
> which simply merges file1.org and file2.org, with the contents of file2.org
> coming after the contents of file1.org. The problem is that the footnote
> calls ([fn:#]) in the file2 section will end up pointing the file1
> footnotes. What I really want is to automatically renumber all the
> footnotes [fn:1]...[fn:6], but I don't know how to do this, given that org
> permits multiple footnote calls to the same footnote.

Is this a case where bibliographic tools like Bibtex come into play?

Would "anonymous" footnotes help, then Org can dynamically number them?

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-11 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-11 17:49 How to combine two org files that each have footnotes? arozbiz
2021-02-11 18:26 ` Russell Adams [this message]
2021-02-11 20:05 ` Christian Moe
2021-02-11 23:54   ` Kyle Meyer
2021-02-14  0:03     ` arozbiz

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