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'd be willing to pay something to have this done and contributed to the
standard installation.

Here's an example of the desired "look"; it's copied and pasted from a court
opinion <https://casetext.com/case/caradigm-us-llc-v-pruitthealth-inc>,
with the footnote numbers bolded:

<BEGIN EXCERPT>

[T]he CSA allowed Pruitt to not only access CIP, but also to "build
Customer Use Cases*[4]*
<https://casetext.com/case/caradigm-us-llc-v-pruitthealth-inc#N196682> and
configure Data Feeds*[5]* for those" cases. *[remainder of paragraph
omitted]*


*[4]* The CSA defines "Use Case" as a "Cloud Services configuration that
incorporates Data Feeds with designated views to address specific issues
within [Pruitt] or [Pruitt's] Facilities." Doc. 1–1 at 7. "Customer Use
Cases," in turn, "means any Use Case developed by or for [Pruitt] or
customized for [Pruitt]." *Id.*

*[5]* "Data Feeds" are "inbound electronic data messages from [Pruitt]
information systems to the Cloud Services." Doc. 1–1 at 7. Essentially, a
data feed is the delivery of information from a Pruitt electronic medical
records software system to CIP, which Caradigm hosts on its own computers,
and which Pruitt accesses via the "cloud." *See* doc. 73 at 6 ("data feeds
are the electronic data messages from PruittHealth systems to [CIP].")
(quotes omitted).

The Order—"made as of June 25th, 2013 ("Order Effective Date ") pursuant to
the [CSA]"—meanwhile, reveals that Pruitt, in addition to the $20,000/month
CIP development license, purchased two other "Cloud Services:" *[remainder
of text omitted]*

<END EXCERPT>

I've just (re)checked the manual
<https://orgmode.org/org.html#Creating-Footnotes> but didn't see this
feature.

A Google search yielded a 2014 Stack Overflow question
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26160126/emacs-org-mode-html-footnotes>
along
the same lines.

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