Re: How to combine two org files that each have footnotes?

[Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com>]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 11:49:32AM -0600, arozbiz@gmail.com wrote:
> Most of my writing is academic and involves lots of footnotes. Sometimes it
> is useful to be able to combine two separate files, each of which have
> footnotes. How do I do so in a way that automatically renumbers the
> footnotes in the file that comes second?
>
> More specifically, I have file1.org and file2.org, and each of them have
> three footnotes ([fn:1], [fn:2], and [fn:3]). I want to create file3.org,
> which simply merges file1.org and file2.org, with the contents of file2.org
> coming after the contents of file1.org. The problem is that the footnote
> calls ([fn:#]) in the file2 section will end up pointing the file1
> footnotes. What I really want is to automatically renumber all the
> footnotes [fn:1]...[fn:6], but I don't know how to do this, given that org
> permits multiple footnote calls to the same footnote.

Is this a case where bibliographic tools like Bibtex come into play?

Would "anonymous" footnotes help, then Org can dynamically number them?

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