Rasmus writes: > Rainer M Krug writes: > >> I tried in LibreOffice, and indeed it does not seem to be possible. I >> don't know what the convention is, but I don't like that an invald .odt >> file is produced. Maybe give a warning about "incompatible features" or >> just drop the footnote in the footnote? > > Dropping it is a possibility, though not a very nice one. Agreed - for me it doesn't matter anymore, as the footnote in the footnote was only a TODO reminder. > > You can insert a cross-reference to a footnote within a footnote. But I > don’t know how to insert a footnote without also adding a reference in the > text. If the latter is possible, that way should work. This sounds like the way to go, but I would suggest that until there is a solution (for this apparently not supported feature in LibreOffice?) to either drop the footnote and give a warning in emacs, or insert the footnote text in the footnote as verbatim text. Cheers, Rainer > > Rasmus -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: Rainer@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug PGP: 0x0F52F982