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:

>>> Since we are now using labels for the HTML export, I think it makes
>>> sense to optionally use those for the anchor tags as well.
>> ...
>> We can indeed add such option, but is it of any practical use?
>> Do you have examples of workflows when such new option will be useful?
>
> An important purpose of using labels is sustainability. If the document
> changes, the labels remain (as would CUSTOM_ID). The problem when
> numbers are used in the anchor text is that if others want to make a
> reference to the footnote (cite it), they will use what they see (not
> the ID, which appears in the source only). And if the document changes,
> their references will be broken.

Sorry, but I am not convinced.
I can make the same argument, say, for headline titles:
It is very natural to refer to a headline when referencing a document,
but when headline changes, such reference is no longer going to work.

For headline titles, it is well-known that a more reliable way is to use
#anchor in the URL. Anchors are much less likely to change compared to
headline titles.

With your previous patch, footnote anchors became more stable and people
can now reliably link to footnotes using #anchor semantics, given that
the page author took care about naming the footnotes.
I find it good enough.

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