On Thursday 12 February 2015 12:49 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote: > Aloha Vaidheeswaran, > > This is an odd example that I don't recall having seen in any > publication. I don't doubt examples might exist, but don't remember > having seen one. Can you point me to a real-world example of a footnote > referring to a subsequent footnote that I might reference either on-line > or in my local library? I am OCRing this book: http://wenshuchan-online.weebly.com/uploads/9/4/8/2/9482304/chan-and-zen-teachingpdf.pdf. This book is atleast 50 years old. You can find the converted files here: https://archive.org/details/TheDiamondCutterOfDoubts The actual text extract goes something as below. I am attaching the scanned image of the book in question. ------------------------ # page 159 Now they saw uncountable and limitless numbers of living beings in the universe[fn:145-1] and wondered when all these beings could be saved and how they could obtain the Buddha fruit since the universe would never be emptied of these beings. # page 169 #+BEGIN_QUOTE 'Subhuti, what do you think? If someone filled the Universe[fn:155-4] with the seven treasures[fn:155-5] and gave them all as alms, would his merit be great?’ Subhuti replied: 'Very great, World Honoured One. Why? Because this merit is not the nature of merit, the Tathagata says it is great.’[fn:155-6] ‘Subhuti, if on the other hand, someone received and kept even a four line stanza of this sutra and expounded it to others, his merit would surpass that (of the giver of treasures). Why? (Because), Subhuti, all Buddhas and their Supreme-Enlightenment-Dharma originate from this sutra. Subhuti, the so-called Buddhas and Dharmas are not real Buddhas and Dharmas.'[fn:155-7] #+END_QUOTE [fn:145-1] Literally ‘the great trichiliocosm’. See footnote 4, p. 169.[fn:155-4] [fn:155-4] Tri-sahasra-maha-sahasra-loka-dhatu=a great trichiliocosm. Mt. Sumeru and its seven surrounding continents, eight seas and ring of iron mountains form one small world; 1,000 of these form a small chiliocosm; 1,000 of these small chiliocosms form a medium chiliocosm; 1,000 of these form a great chiliocosm, which consists of 1,000,000,000 small worlds. The word ‘universe’ is used for convenience sake. > All the best, > Tom > > Vaidheeswaran writes: > >> On Thursday 12 February 2015 02:42 AM, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: >>> It does, e.g., when exporting to LaTeX. This is an odt limitation. So, >>> I disagree, `org-export-footnote-first-reference-p' is correct here. >> >> >> Let me put my question this way: >> >> What changes need to be made in ox.el and/or ox-odt.el so that the >> snippet I shared produces the right XML acceptable for LibreOffice. >> >> text1 [fn:1] >> >> text2 [fn:2] >> >> [fn:1] footdef1[fn:2] >> >> [fn:2] footdef2 >> >> For purposes of ODT backend, we need to find the 'site of first >> reference' THAT IS OUTSIDE OF A foonote definition. Would it be >> possible for you to augment the API so that I can request such a >> reference. >> >> NOTE: The XML that is emitted by the ODT exporter, suggests that the >> '[fn:2]' occurring in '[fn:1]' is treated as site of first >> reference. We would like to make '[fn:2]' occurring next to 'text2' be >> treated as the site of first reference. If we do that, everything >> will be just right. >> >> >> >> >> >