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 < galaxybeinglam...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Aaron Ecay <aarone...@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 >> > >
