On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 8:12 AM Tory S. Anderson <torys.anderson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have a single org file that represents a collection of articles;
> each article starts with a first-level heading and includes its
> own footnotes, always restarting from 0. I have a ** Footnotes
> section in each article with the appropriate footnotes, but it
> isn't respected when I follow one of the footnote references;
> following [fn:3] in the any article, for example, will take me to
> [fn:3] of the first article's footnotes. What's the best way
> around this, so that each article will use its own footnotes
> section?
>

I just increment the footnotes across all the articles. So, for example, if
article 1 has footnotes 1 and 2, article 2 will continue from footnote
number 3. The beauty is that if you export article 2, it will auto-reset
the footnote reference to number 1.

The key is to not manually number the footnotes and let C-c C-x f (bound to
org-footnote-action) do its thing.

Hope that helps.
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Kaushal Modi