Sorry, I'm stumbling badly here. I now realize the org-footnote-auto-label
needs to be set to avoid the default (t) behavior of doing numbered
footnotes ( [fn:1] ) after C-c C-x f auto-inserts. Good. But where do the
in-buffer settings go? I assume they go in the .org file you're currently
working in? At the top maybe?

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Lawrence Bottorff <
galaxybeinglambda@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Lawrence,
>>
>> You can have footnotes be inserted automatically:
>> - in their own section (by default at the bottom of the document, though
>>   you can move it anywhere)
>> - at the end of the current section, or
>> - inline with the text
>>
>> For the first behavior, set the variable ‘org-footnote-define-inline’ to
>> nil.  For the second, set both ‘org-footnote-define-inline’ and
>> ‘org-footnote-section’ to nil.  And for the third, set
>> ‘org-footnote-define-inline’ to something other than nil.
>>
>> Let's say I want the "default" behavior, i.e. the expansion of the
> footnote definitions in their own section. Here's a line in my .org file:
>
> 1. Re-read Stephenson's "Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010" [fn::
> Stephenson: Leibnitz], especially for the description of "monads."
>
> Now what do I do? The expansion/definition of this placeholder is
>
> "Some Remarks"; "Essays and Other Writings"; Stephenson, Neal;
> HarperCollins Publishers; 978-0-06-202443-5; 2012; pp 38-57.
>
> Where does this expansion go? Do I do M->, hit the Enter a few times and
> type it in? But then how does the placeholder above know to link to it? And
> the ‘org-footnote-define-inline’ etc. look like elisp variable names. Do I
> set them in my .emacs? That doesn't seem quite right since I might be
> juggling many different .org files, each with a different footnote style.
>
> You can place footnote definitions manually wherever you choose.
>>
>> You can use the line
>> #+INCLUDE: "file.org"
>> to include one org file inside another for export purposes.  I don’t
>> know off the top of my head whether this works to import footnote
>> definitions from a separate file, though I don’t see a reason why it
>> shouldn’t.  Try it and see!  (It almost certainly won’t allow footnotes
>> in one file to be links to locations in another.)
>>
>> --
>> Aaron Ecay
>>
>
>