From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Denton Subject: Re: footnote fontify causing massive slowdown Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 19:58:00 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <87egf1qcgn.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="658601964-1588940961-1449363480=:22829" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48224) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5NeQ-00038c-0B for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 19:58:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5NeM-0000Yz-0b for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 19:58:05 -0500 Received: from shell.miskatonic.org ([65.39.236.119]:41248) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5NeL-0000Yo-TM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 19:58:01 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shell.miskatonic.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79163FA0A26 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 2015 19:58:00 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87egf1qcgn.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --658601964-1588940961-1449363480=:22829 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 5 December 2015, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > 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 mod= e > 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. +1. The false positives are a common problem for me, and [fn:1] works cl= eanly=20 and clearly. Bill --=20 William Denton =E2=86=94 Toronto, Canada =E2=86=94 https://www.miskaton= ic.org/ --658601964-1588940961-1449363480=:22829--