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,

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 Bastien