Thanks for the response, Bastien. No one has answered up, suggesting that
there's not widespread interest.






On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 4:29 AM Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> "D. C. Toedt" <dc@toedt.com> writes:
>
> > For an ongoing pro bono project, it would be nice if there were an
> > in-buffer #+OPTION: configuration for footnotes, when exporting to
> > HTML (or DOCX or PDF), to have the footnote text in small print just
> > below the paragraph in which the footnote reference occurs.
>
> I don't know if you find someone to implement this, but FWIW I don't
> think it would be a good idea to support it in Org by default.  This
> is more a job for a new specific export backend (HTML based, if your
> need is just for the HTML export.)
>
> Best,
>
> --
>  Bastien
>