Re: Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]

[Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>]

This is a two-part problem.

1. Right square bracket in inline footnote prematurely terminates the
    footnote.

    IMO this is not a bug, it's an inherent and quite reasonable
    limitation on the inline footnote format, and is easily solved by
    falling back on the block footnote syntax.

    #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
    ** A heading
    This is a broken footnote.[fn:somebook]

    [fn:somebook] Some book at [42-24].
    #+END_EXAMPLE

2. A number in square brackets is interpreted as a footnote marker
    (even inside another footnote).

    In ASCII export, as in Aidan's example, this doesn't matter because
    footnote markers are exported in ... square brackets. But in other
    export formats it's an occasional pain.

    Some workarounds for this problem, involving =fn:nil= or invisible
    zero-space characters, were recently posted on the list:
    http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/28191


Cheers,
Christian


Giovanni Ridolfi wrote:
> Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz> writes:
> 
>> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 24.0.50.6 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1)
>>  of 2010-08-29 on dimension8
>> Package: Org-mode version 7.01trans
> 
>> It is impossible to have closing brackets in a footnote, because they
>> are treated as the closing bracket for the foot note.  
>> Example...
>>
>> * A heading
>> This is a broken footnote.[fn:: Some book at [42-24].]
>>
>> This will export to (as ASCII, for example)...
>>
>> 1 A heading
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> This is a broken footnote.[1].]
>>
>> This will export to (as ASCII, for example)...
>>
>> [1] Some book at [42-24
>>
>> This is how I am required to cite books for my academic essays, so this
>> is a pretty serious bug for me (and no doubt other students, as well).
>>
> GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2010-05-08 on G41R2F1
> Org-mode version
>          7.01trans-commit-1d1439f91e63e71f39e93622a0af439762522c00
> 
> Also escaping the brackets does not work Example:
> 
> ** A heading
> This is a broken footnote.[fn:: Some book at \[42-24\].]
> 
>  Exports to:
> 
> 1 A heading 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> This is a broken footnote.[1].]
> [1] Some book at \[42-24\
> 
> Giovanni
> 
> 
> 
> 
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