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From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to make footnotes be fnlocal by default?
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 00:57:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnggvaty.fsf@gmx.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.DEB.2.02.1506151831430.5852@shell.miskatonic.org

William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> writes:

> I'm writing something with a bunch of footnotes and instead of doing
> them by hand I'm using C-c C-x f, which in the usual Emacs/Org way
> strikes me as a more difficult at first but then turns into magic.
>
> By default, adding a footnote puts it at the bottom of the document.
> This is because of org-footnote-define-inline:
>
> 'Non-nil means define footnotes inline, at reference location. When
> nil, footnotes will be defined in a special section near the end of
> the document. When t, the [fn:label:definition] notation will be used
> to define the footnote at the reference position."
>
> However, there are three (not two) possible options available in
> STARTUP options:
>
>> fninline    define footnotes inline
>> fnnoinline  define footnotes in separate section
>> fnlocal     define footnotes near first reference, but not inline
>
> I found I like fnlocal, which puts the footnotes at the bottom of the
> paragraph or section, where they are nearby and easy to see.
>
> I'd like to make this the default in all Org files by setting
> org-footnote-define-inline, but it seems I can't---all I can definte
> that way are the fninline and fnnoinline options.  Am I correct?  Is
> there some way around this, or perhaps a (setq
> org-footnote-define-inline 'fnlocal) setting could be added?

How about:
    (setq org-footnote-section nil) 

Rasmus

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-06-15 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-15 22:40 How to make footnotes be fnlocal by default? William Denton
2015-06-15 22:56 ` Kyle Meyer
2015-06-15 22:57 ` Rasmus [this message]
2015-06-16  1:22   ` William Denton
2015-06-16 11:49     ` Nicolas Goaziou

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