> I think it is a can of worms. For example, you cannot properly number
> footnotes anymore since there's no guarantee a caption is going to be
> exported.

In my use case, I can guarantee that all captions will be exported. So,
could footnotes in captions be implemented as an optional feature that
the user can enable by setting some variable? Or will that be too much
trouble?

Regards,
Arun Isaac.