Thanks John, but I've tried this and several other permutations as
suggested on Page 16 of the org manual, and I haven't found anything
that really works, so far!

Some background information - this is in the file header '#+startup:
showeverything fnadjust' and the footnotes are inline.

The latest footnote immediately before the parachuted section is
'[fn:73]', and the parachuted sections started footnote is '[fn:141]',
and that is what I'm trying to achieve, the footnote renumbered so that
they flow from '[fn:73]' to '[fn:74]' in the parachuted section, and
then onwards.

Thanks
Sharon.

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Maybe (org-footnote-renumber-fn:N)?

Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:

> I am converting a website into a pdf file, article by article, currently
> 1,190 A4 pages with 2,882 footnotes and its not finished yet. The main
> file has 4 additional files linked to it by '#+include:
> /home/boudiccas/research/writing/book/file-1.org :minlevel 1' just
> before I generate the glossary, bibliography, and index.
>
> In 'file 5' I am actively converting/writing sections some of which need
> to be parachuted (meaning dropped into their alphabetical place) into
> some of the other files, but I know that when I do that the footnotes
> will not be renumbered.
>
> So how can I trigger a footnote renumber please?
>
> Is there something like 'M-x org-footnote-renumber' that I can run
> periodically in each sub-file to renumber the footnotes?
>
> Thanks
> Sharon.
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