emacs-orgmode@gnu.org archives
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed

From: Gerald Wildgruber <Gerald.Wildgruber@unibas.ch>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Cc: org mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: how to convert/normalize plain footnotes into [fn:] ones
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 17:48:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2tw9xkz3z.fsf@Sxedia.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tr9xp16.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>


Hi Nicolas,

thanks:

I had actually tried that already and came up with the following regex:

\([^ ]\)\(\[\)\([0-9]\) --> \1\2fn:\3

i.e. three groupings: 1) no whitespace, 2) "[" and 3) a number, and then
introducing "fn:" between "[" and the number: but it is not perfect, as
it still gives false positives; do you have something better?

The problem unfortunately arises also by pandoc still using the now
obsolete syntax of plain footnotes when converting (e.g. latex) to org
mode!


Gerald.


On Mi, Dez 21 2016, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Gerald Wildgruber <Gerald.Wildgruber@unibas.ch> writes:
>
>> I'm trying to convert older orgmode documents which have plain,
>> "[1]"-like footnotes into the newer "[fn:]" format.
>>
>> Can this be done automatically?
>
> You could use `query-replace-regexp' a.k.a. C-M-%.
>
>> Nicolas mentions "org-footnote-normalize" which would turn old footnotes
>> in new ones, but it does nothing in my case except adding a "*
>> Footnotes" entry.
>
> You misunderstood. `org-footnote-normalize' used to turn every footnote
> into [1], [2], ... whereas it now turns them into [fn:1], [fn:2],... IOW
> it cannot be used to convert from old syntax to new one.
>
> Regards,


--
Dr.Gerald Wildgruber
eikones NFS Bildkritik
NCCR Iconic Criticism
Universität Basel
Rheinsprung 11
CH-4051 Basel
www.eikones.ch
T. +41 (0)61 267 18 02
F. +41 (0)61 267 18 11
---------------------
Sent with mu4e

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2016-12-21 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-21 14:46 how to convert/normalize plain footnotes into [fn:] ones Gerald Wildgruber
2016-12-21 15:47 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-12-21 16:48   ` Gerald Wildgruber [this message]
2016-12-21 20:12     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-12-23 13:57       ` Gerald Wildgruber

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.orgmode.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=m2tw9xkz3z.fsf@Sxedia.local \
    --to=gerald.wildgruber@unibas.ch \
    --cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
    --cc=mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link

Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).