From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas S. Dye Subject: Re: footnote fontify causing massive slowdown Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2015 15:18:42 -1000 Message-ID: References: <87egf1qcgn.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49896) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5Nyr-00075b-Pw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 20:19:14 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5Nyo-0005fT-J4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 20:19:13 -0500 Received: from gproxy2-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com ([69.89.18.3]:35662) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a5Nyo-0005f6-Au for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2015 20:19:10 -0500 In-reply-to: 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: William Denton Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org William Denton writes: > 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 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. > > +1. The false positives are a common problem for me, and [fn:1] works cleanly > and clearly. Same here. +1. All the best, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com