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 16:47:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878tr9xp16.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2vaudl4r0.fsf@Sxedia.local> (Gerald Wildgruber's message of "Wed, 21 Dec 2016 15:46:11 +0100")
Hello,
Gerald Wildgruber <Gerald.Wildgruber@unibas.ch> writes:
> I'm trying to convert older orgmode documents which have plain,
> "[1]"-like footnotes into the newer "[fn:]" format.
>
> Can this be done automatically?
You could use `query-replace-regexp' a.k.a. C-M-%.
> Nicolas mentions "org-footnote-normalize" which would turn old footnotes
> in new ones, but it does nothing in my case except adding a "*
> Footnotes" entry.
You misunderstood. `org-footnote-normalize' used to turn every footnote
into [1], [2], ... whereas it now turns them into [fn:1], [fn:2],... IOW
it cannot be used to convert from old syntax to new one.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-21 15:47 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 [this message]
2016-12-21 16:48 ` Gerald Wildgruber
2016-12-21 20:12 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-12-23 13:57 ` Gerald Wildgruber
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