Hello,

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 2:27 PM ST <smntov@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> in the manual
>
> https://orgmode.org/manual/Footnotes.html#Footnotes
>
> it says that footnotes[fn:1]
>
> [fn:1] look like this
>
>
> but actually[1]
>
> [1] works as well and looks even better.
>
> So why this option is not documented?
>

I would think that's so because canonically Org mode using [fn:1] style. It
looks like you are manually typing the footnote refs and definitions.

Try using C-c C-x f binding.. you will see that Org inserts the footnotes
in the documented style.

I would say that the "fn"-style footnotes remove any kind of ambiguity..
-- 

Kaushal Modi