Re: [BUG] HTML export does not preserve footnote label [9.6.15 (release_9.6.15 @ /usr/local/share/emacs/30.0.50/lisp/org/)]

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com> writes:

> Though I should have clarified my intent earlier: the idea is to use the
> label as a fixed reference to the footnote, so that the link does not
> change between exports. This is the same principle as what we do with
> links to headings that have a CUSTOM_ID.
>
> As such, the anchor text can still be the way it is now as an
> automatically generated number sequence (^1, ^2, etc.), but the HTML
> "id" and "href" values will be constructed based on the label of the
> footnote, NOT its number in the sequence.
>
> What do you think?

That may work. One may simply change the anchors for footnote references
and footnotes when they are labeled. However, we should be careful when
labels are duplicated (multiple references to the same named footnote) -
only a single back-reference is possible from the footnote definition
back to footnote reference.

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