From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org,
"Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro" <oitofelix@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Bug: Org-mode don't export to html footnotes references inside footnotes as such. [7.8.03]
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:36:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bood5sn1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81aa3xo2nw.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Sun, 04 Mar 2012 01:52:27 +0530")
Hello,
Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
> Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> oitofelix@gmail.com (Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro) writes:
>>
>>> Consider the following org code:
>>>
>>> --
>>> This is only a text.[1]
>>>
>>> [1] This is a text body's footnote.[2]
>>> [2] This is a footnote's footnote.
>>> --
>>>
>>> When org-mode exports this code to html, despite the fact that
>>> footnote 2 is present in the final document, it don't exports
>>> footnote 2 reference as a link to footnote 2; it's exported just
>>> like plain text.
>>
>> There's no official support for nested footnotes in current exporter.
>> Implementing it would be non trivial (it may be for the HTML back-end,
>> but clearly not for the LaTeX one). Since we're working on a new export
>> engine, I don't think it's worth the effort.
>>
>> Though, your report made me implement it in the experimental exporter.
>
> From OpenDocument-1.2 spec has the following note
>
> ,----
> | 6.3.4<text:note-body>
> |
> | The <text:note-body> element contains the content of a note. It does not
> | have any attributes.
> |
> | Note: The schema allows for the inclusion of notes into the note
> | body. While this may be reasonable for note types, it is not reasonable
> | for footnotes and endnotes. Conforming consumers need not support notes
> | inside notes.
> `----
>
> LibreOffice doesn't support notes inside notes. So for all practical
> purposes, nested footnotes cannot be supported with ODT export (in both
> the legacy and in-the-works experimental version).
>
> If one intends to export his Org file to ODT, then nested footnote
> construction should be avoided like plague.
It isn't really supported in LaTeX too, but there are workarounds.
If such thing isn't possible, ODT back-end will ignore any footnote
contained in another footnote (i.e. whose genealogy contains an element
with an `footnote-reference' or `footnote-definition' type) and send
a message to the user.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-03 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-25 2:28 Bug: Org-mode don't export to html footnotes references inside footnotes as such. [7.8.03] Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
2012-02-26 12:43 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-03-03 20:22 ` Jambunathan K
2012-03-03 20:36 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2012-03-04 10:30 ` Achim Gratz
2012-03-04 12:47 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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