Matthew, No apologies needed. A good explanation like yours is a valuable thing to have sitting in the mailing list archive (and perhaps even in a more formal spot, in the Worg article: "Academic writing with Org," which I will someday help you write.)
Scot On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Matthew Lundin<m...@imapmail.org> wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Andreas Röhler <andreas.roeh...@easy-emacs.de> writes: > >> Matthew Lundin wrote: >>> Footnote.el, by contrast, was designed for short email messages in which >>> there is no distinction between source text and exported text. Though it >>> serves this limited purpose admirably, it offers only a very rudimentary >>> numbering system rather than a complete markup solution. For any complex >>> writing (e.g., a research paper with dozens of footnotes), footnote.el >>> is well-nigh impossible to use. There are simply too many chances of >>> broken or mixed up links. >>> >> >> Ignoring the guts of org-modes footnote implementation, just my impression >> of footnote.el: >> >> it's fine by architecture and --if patched-- well capable for all things >> you want to do with footnotes. >> Can't see any limitation concerning larger texts. >> It simply wasn't --or isn't-- written to the end. > > Thanks for the clarification. Reading over my email, I believe I may > stated some conclusions about footnote.el too strongly. What I should > have said is that *in my own experience* I have found footnote.el > difficult to use (in its pre-patched form, of course). > > Try as I might, I could never get Footnote-renumber-footnotes to do > anything. And if I moved any footnotes in the original text, deleted > them manually, or reopened a document with footnotes, > Footnote-add-footnote behaved unpredictably, creating duplicate numbers, > skipping numbers, putting footnotes in the wrong order, placing > footnotes randomly above and below the "Footnotes:" line, etc. > > Very likely, my issues with footnote.el were due to my own lack of > understanding of its mechanics, and I can see how your patch fixes > things up quite a bit. It will be a really nice contribution to emacs if > footnote.el is fixed, since modes such as Muse rely on it. > > Also, my apologies for a somewhat wordy defense of org-footnote. I wrote > it only because I am a very big fan. :) > > Regards, > Matt > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode