I'm experiencing an issue similar to this one:
--- http://osdir.com/ml/emacs-orgmode-gnu/2011-10/msg00544.html

I have a paragraph in which I reference a dollar amount (preceded by "$").
Attempting to insert a footnote anywhere in that paragraph gets me the
error "Cannot insert a footnote here." Inserting one manually leaves the
text black vs. fontified in the typical link color. Export produces it as
the verbatim text ([fn:xx]) instead of converting it. Trying to escape the
$ sign with \ doesn't fix the issue. Inserting another $ re-activates the
footnote, but that will obviously convert my dollar amount to math font,
which isn't what I want.

Any suggestions?


Thanks,
John