Re: How to combine two org files that each have footnotes?

[Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>]

Hi,

This is actually easy because Org allows named footnotes (numbers are
really just a special case of names).

Make backup copies of your files for safety's sake, then visit file1.org
and M-% to replace all instances of "fn:" with (for example)
"fn:file1_". The footnotes will now be named fn:file1_1, fn:file1_2,
etc. At this point all your footnotes across the two documents are
already uniquely named (but you can of course also do the corresponding
thing to file2 if you like). Merge away.

Yours,
Christian



arozbiz@gmail.com writes:

> Most of my writing is academic and involves lots of footnotes. Sometimes it
> is useful to be able to combine two separate files, each of which have
> footnotes. How do I do so in a way that automatically renumbers the
> footnotes in the file that comes second?
>
> More specifically, I have file1.org and file2.org, and each of them have
> three footnotes ([fn:1], [fn:2], and [fn:3]). I want to create file3.org,
> which simply merges file1.org and file2.org, with the contents of file2.org
> coming after the contents of file1.org. The problem is that the footnote
> calls ([fn:#]) in the file2 section will end up pointing the file1
> footnotes. What I really want is to automatically renumber all the
> footnotes [fn:1]...[fn:6], but I don't know how to do this, given that org
> permits multiple footnote calls to the same footnote.
>
> Thanks,
> Alan