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Subject: Re: footnote fontify causing massive slowdown
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Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> However, this report raises an interesting question about footnotes:
> should we still support plain (e.g., "[1]") footnotes in Org documents?
>
> The pattern is very common an regularly introduces false positives.
> Also, IIRC, it was introduced for non-Org buffers (e.g., in Message mode
> buffers), to provide some common features with "footnote.el" library.
>
> I think we could remove this kind of footnotes, and yet preserve
> `org-footnote-normalize' to change Org footnotes into these ones, for
> foreign documents.
>
> WDYT?

I'd be happy to kill [n] style footnotes.  I've had issues with them in
the past.

Rasmus

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