From: William Denton <wtd@pobox.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to make footnotes be fnlocal by default?
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 21:22:42 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1506152121380.6288@shell.miskatonic.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bnggvaty.fsf@gmx.us>
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Thanks, Kyle and Rasmus.
Attached is a tiny patch to add mention of this variable in the section of the
docs where all those options are listed.
Bill
On 16 June 2015, Rasmus wrote:
> William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> I'm writing something with a bunch of footnotes and instead of doing
>> them by hand I'm using C-c C-x f, which in the usual Emacs/Org way
>> strikes me as a more difficult at first but then turns into magic.
>>
>> By default, adding a footnote puts it at the bottom of the document.
>> This is because of org-footnote-define-inline:
>>
>> 'Non-nil means define footnotes inline, at reference location. When
>> nil, footnotes will be defined in a special section near the end of
>> the document. When t, the [fn:label:definition] notation will be used
>> to define the footnote at the reference position."
>>
>> However, there are three (not two) possible options available in
>> STARTUP options:
>>
>>> fninline define footnotes inline
>>> fnnoinline define footnotes in separate section
>>> fnlocal define footnotes near first reference, but not inline
>>
>> I found I like fnlocal, which puts the footnotes at the bottom of the
>> paragraph or section, where they are nearby and easy to see.
>>
>> I'd like to make this the default in all Org files by setting
>> org-footnote-define-inline, but it seems I can't---all I can definte
>> that way are the fninline and fnnoinline options. Am I correct? Is
>> there some way around this, or perhaps a (setq
>> org-footnote-define-inline 'fnlocal) setting could be added?
>
> How about:
> (setq org-footnote-section nil)
>
> Rasmus
>
>
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William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/
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*** org.texi 2015-05-31 13:00:44.415430490 -0400
--- org.texi.new 2015-06-15 21:17:30.771751673 -0400
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@vindex org-footnote-auto-adjust
To influence footnote settings, use the following keywords. The
corresponding variables are @code{org-footnote-define-inline},
! @code{org-footnote-auto-label}, and @code{org-footnote-auto-adjust}.
@cindex @code{fninline}, STARTUP keyword
@cindex @code{nofninline}, STARTUP keyword
@cindex @code{fnlocal}, STARTUP keyword
--- 17155,17162 ----
@vindex org-footnote-auto-adjust
To influence footnote settings, use the following keywords. The
corresponding variables are @code{org-footnote-define-inline},
! @code{org-footnote-auto-label}, @code{org-footnote-auto-adjust},
! and @code{org-footnote-section}.
@cindex @code{fninline}, STARTUP keyword
@cindex @code{nofninline}, STARTUP keyword
@cindex @code{fnlocal}, STARTUP keyword
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-16 1:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-15 22:40 How to make footnotes be fnlocal by default? William Denton
2015-06-15 22:56 ` Kyle Meyer
2015-06-15 22:57 ` Rasmus
2015-06-16 1:22 ` William Denton [this message]
2015-06-16 11:49 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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