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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Gerald Wildgruber <Gerald.Wildgruber@unibas.ch>
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 21:12:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871sx1xcr9.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2tw9xkz3z.fsf@Sxedia.local> (Gerald Wildgruber's message of "Wed, 21 Dec 2016 17:48:00 +0100")

Hello,

Gerald Wildgruber <Gerald.Wildgruber@unibas.ch> writes:

> 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?

I would use (and, in fact, used)

 \\[\\([0-9]+\\)\\] --> \\[fn:\\1\\]

and eyeballing the results.

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

I'm certain Pandoc importer will ultimately catch-up.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-21 20:12 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
2016-12-21 20:12     ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2016-12-23 13:57       ` Gerald Wildgruber

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