Re: footnotes as [references]?

[Stefan Vollmar <vollmar@nf.mpg.de>]

Dear Bastien,

On 27.07.2009, at 05:35, Bastien wrote:

>> we want to have a "traditional" reference section in a software
>> documentation we are currently writing using org-mode. Org's Footnote
>> feature is almost perfect for the job, however, I prefer the "[123]"-
>> type of reference rather than the superscript notation org  
>> generates for
>> HTML-export. Is there a way to change the appearance of footnotes
>> (still hyperlinked, of course) to the square-bracket version in HTML
>> output?
>
> Now there is a new option `org-export-html-footnote-format'.
>
> You can set this to " [%s]" and the references will be in the format
> you describe.
>
> Thanks for this idea,


EXCELLENT, thank you!

Small things:

(1) Using the "fn:" style of footnotes, org generates a "Footnotes:"  
section in HTML export. In org-footnote.el I found that I might need  
to set
org-footnote-tag-for-non-org-mode-files to change "Footnotes" to  
"References" (or some other name), however,
(setq org-footnote-tag-for-non-org-mode-files "References")
does not seem to work for me.

(2) If, with
(setq org-export-html-footnote-format " [%s]")
we now have a "[123]"-style of footnotes (that works great!), the list  
of footnotes/references at the end of the document should also have  
the square-bracket-notation.

(3) I believe that the square-bracket-style might be of interest to  
many users and maybe there should be a #+options-switch to toggle  
superscript- and square-bracket-style.

Warm regards,
  Stefan
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