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From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Subject: Re: How to make footnotes be fnlocal by default?
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 18:56:20 -0400
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To: William Denton <wtd@pobox.com>
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William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> wrote:
[...]
> However, there are three (not two) possible options available in
> STARTUP options:
>
>> fninline    define footnotes inline
>> fnnoinline  define footnotes in separate section
>> fnlocal     define footnotes near first reference, but not inline
>
> I found I like fnlocal, which puts the footnotes at the bottom of the
> paragraph or section, where they are nearby and easy to see.
>
> I'd like to make this the default in all Org files by setting
> org-footnote-define-inline, but it seems I can't---all I can definte
> that way are the fninline and fnnoinline options.  Am I correct?  Is
> there some way around this, or perhaps a (setq
> org-footnote-define-inline 'fnlocal) setting could be added?

I think you can get this by setting org-footnote-section to nil.  (I
haven't tried this but am guessing based off of org-startup-options.)

-- 
Kyle