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From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Removal of [1]-like footnotes
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 23:52:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a8p81yda.fsf@gmx.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87oadp9yu9.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr

Hi,

Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> As discussed previously, I pushed changes about footnotes in a dedicated
> branch, "wip-no-plain-fn", for testing.
>
> In a nutshell, in this branch, Org no longer recognizes [1]-like
> constructs as valid footnotes, an no longer spend time matching them.

Thanks a lot!

> As a consequence, "fn:" can now be unambiguously removed from label and
> become part of the syntax. Thus, [fn:1] is labelled "1" and [fn:label]
> is labelled "label".

Can I now write:

    X[fn:1]

    [1] foot

If so, why the need for the fanciness?  Why not just require label and
reference to be the same?  I doesn’t sound like something that would be
nice to have to explain to an Org newcomer.

> I don't really mind adding it back, but it ought to be a separate
> function, with a different design. It is not really possible to treat
> non-Org buffers as Org ones (cf. `orgstruct-mode' problems). However,
> before spending time on it, I'd like to know if there is any incentive
> to use it over, e.g. `footnote-mode' right from the start?

No there is not.  You can probably get the desired style with
(Footnote-set-style 'unicode).  We can eventually add keybindings for
footnote-mode in norgstruct that resemble Org, if necessary.

Rasmus

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-17 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-17 10:03 [RFC] Removal of [1]-like footnotes Nicolas Goaziou
2015-12-17 22:52 ` Rasmus [this message]
2015-12-18 20:56   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-12-18 20:57     ` Rasmus
2015-12-19 15:27 ` Thierry Banel
2015-12-20 14:28   ` Simon Thum
2015-12-22 16:01     ` Nicolas Goaziou

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