Re: [DISCUSSION] Allowing footnote-references inside parsed keywords (#+AUTHOR, #+TITLE, etc)

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:

>> #+AUTHOR: John Doe[fn::935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20535-0001]
>> it is probably not exported as expected anyway.
>
> How about using dedicated keywords? Something like:
>
> #+FN_AUTHOR: footnote text
> #+FN_TITLE: footnote text

What if you have multiple authors?

If you mean

#+AUTHOR: author1
#+FN_AUTHOR: footnote for author 1
#+AUTHOR: author2
#+FN_AUTHOR: footnote for author 2

, it is actually problematic because the code concatenates the values of
#+AUTHOR keywords before processing, and it is hard to know which author
corresponds to which footnote.


If we really need something safe, pre-processing values in ox.el and
producing backward-compatible :author value and addition
:author-w-footnotes value in the export INFO plist would be more
reasonable and less ugly. Still ugly though.

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