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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