Re: Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 10:15:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D3F8E5E2-C862-4610-957D-590B68697A38@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100901081903.613ca266.alantyree@gmail.com>

On Sep 1, 2010, at 12:19 AM, Alan L Tyree wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:09:58 +0200
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Aidan,
>>
>> unfortunately this is difficult to fix in a good way.
>> I do want to go back to footnotes, because I think there are many
>> things that do not yet work satisfactorily.  And then I also hope to
>> address the issue you raised.  For the time being, unfortunately, I
>> do not have a solution for you.
>
> I also have problems with footnotes. Jan Boecker kindly devised a
> work-around using non-printing spaces which is OK, but what I would  
> like
> is:
>
> Disable footnotes like [2010], but keep footnotes like [fn:2010]

Also on my list of things to fix when I get there....

- Carsten

>
> The reason is that I write legal texts that have references to case  
> law
> that look like: Marreco v Richardson [1908] 2 KB 584. The dates in
> square brackets are an essential part of the reference.
>
> f:nil in the Options seems to disable all footnotes rather than just
> the [2010] type. The documentation is slightly misleading on this.
> Under "Export options" it says:
>
> f:	turn on/off footnotes like this[1].
>
> I seem to be living more and more in org-mode. Thanks for such great
> software!
>
> Alan
>
>
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>> On Aug 31, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Aidan Gauland wrote:
>>
>>> It is impossible to have closing brackets in a footnote, because
>>> they are treated as the closing bracket for the foot note.
>>> Example...
>>>
>>> * A heading
>>> This is a broken footnote.[fn:: Some book at [42-24].]
>>>
>>> This will export to (as ASCII, for example)...
>>>                         org-fn-bug-example
>>>                         ==================
>>>
>>> Author: Aidan Gauland
>>> Date: 2010-08-31 20:33:14 NZST
>>>
>>>
>>> Table of Contents
>>> =================
>>> 1 A heading
>>>
>>>
>>> 1 A heading
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> This is a broken footnote.[1].]
>>>
>>> This will export to (as ASCII, for example)...
>>>
>>> [1] Some book at [42-24
>>>
>>> This is how I am required to cite books for my academic essays, so
>>> this
>>> is a pretty serious bug for me (and no doubt other students, as
>>> well).
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Aidan Gauland
>>>
>>> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 24.0.50.6 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+
>>> Version 2.20.1)
>>> of 2010-08-29 on dimension8
>>> Package: Org-mode version 7.01trans
>>>
>>> current state:
>>> ==============
>>> (setq
>>> org-export-latex-after-initial-vars-hook
>>> '(org-beamer-after-initial- vars)
>>> org-agenda-files '("~/uc-files/uc-work.org")
>>> org-agenda-include-diary t
>>> org-completion-use-iswitchb t
>>> org-completion-use-ido t
>>> org-metaup-hook '(org-babel-load-in-session-maybe)
>>> org-after-todo-state-change-hook '(org-clock-out-if-current)
>>> org-export-blocks-postblock-hook '(org-exp-res/src-name-cleanup)
>>> org-export-latex-format-toc-function 'org-export-latex-format-toc-
>>> default
>>> org-export-preprocess-hook '(org-export-blocks-preprocess)
>>> org-tab-first-hook '(org-hide-block-toggle-maybe
>>> org-babel-hide-result-toggle-maybe)
>>> org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-babel-configure-edit-buffer
>>> org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer)
>>> org-confirm-shell-link-function 'yes-or-no-p
>>> org-export-first-hook '(org-beamer-initialize-open-trackers)
>>> org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text)
>>> org-cycle-hook '(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees org-cycle-hide-
>>> drawers
>>> org-cycle-show-empty-lines
>>> 									org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change)
>>> org-export-preprocess-before-normalizing-links-hook
>>> '(org-remove-file-link-modifiers)
>>> org-mode-hook '(#[nil "\300\301\302\303\304$\207"
>>> 									 [org-add-hook
>>> change-major-mode-hook org-show-block-all append local] 5]
>>> 								 #[nil
>>> 								 #"\300
>>> 								 #\301
>>> 								 #\302
>>> 								 #\303
>>> 								 #\304
>>> 								 #$
>>> 								 #\207"
>>> 									 [org-add-hook
>>> change-major-mode-hook org-babel-show-result- all
>>> append local] 5]
>>> 								 org-babel-result-hide-spec
>>> org-babel-hide-all-hashes) org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c-hook
>>> '(org-babel-hash-at-point org-babel-execute- safely-maybe)
>>> org-confirm-elisp-link-function 'yes-or-no-p
>>> org-export-interblocks '((lob org-babel-exp-lob-one-liners) (src
>>> org-babel-exp-inline-src-blocks))
>>> org-occur-hook '(org-first-headline-recenter)
>>> org-outline-path-complete-in-steps nil
>>> org-export-preprocess-before-selecting-backend-code-hook
>>> '(org-beamer-select-beamer-code)
>>> org-export-latex-final-hook '(org-beamer-amend-header
>>> org-beamer-fix- toc
>>> org-beamer-auto-fragile-frames
>>> 															 org-beamer-place-default-actions-for-lists)
>>> org-metadown-hook '(org-babel-pop-to-session-maybe)
>>> org-export-blocks '((src org-babel-exp-src-blocks nil) (comment
>>> org-export-blocks-format-comment t)
>>> 										 (ditaa
>>> org-export-blocks-format-ditaa nil) (dot
>>> org-export-blocks-format-dot nil)) )
>>>
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>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>>
>>
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- Carsten