Xavier Garrido <xavier.garrido <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi Orgers,
>
> I am having some troubles with several org files that I want to include
> into one general org file. To do that I use the #+INCLUDE: keywords and
> actually, everything is working well until I add some footnotes in both
> files. Let me show you a minimal example where the footnote numbering is
> getting weird
>
> When I export to LaTeX the latest file, I get two footnotes with the
> same number. The problem can be solved by changing the label of the
> second footnote to [fn:2] but it means that I have to reorganize and
> reorder footnotes within all the org files I will include. I am
> wondering if it is possible to run, for example,
> =org-footnote-renumber-fn:N= function when including files in such way
> the user will not have to take care footnote labels.
I had exactly this problem in a big project. Poking around the customization
group org-footnote, I found:
Org Footnote Auto Label: Value Menu Create a random label
State: SAVED and set.
Non-nil means define automatically new labels for footnotes.
Possible values are:
nil Prompt the user for each label.
t Create unique labels of the form [fn:1], [fn:2], etc.
confirm Like t, but let the user edit the created value.
The label can be removed from the minibuffer to create
an anonymous footnote.
random Automatically generate a unique, random label.
plain Automatically create plain number labels like [1].
I switched to random labels, and no problem since then.
I don't find any evidence of a function that will automatically switch
existing footnotes to random IDs, though, and I'm afraid I'm short of time
this morning. It should be possible, but I guess nobody has done it.
But, do set the custom var to use random labels. It will prevent the problem
for all new footnotes.
hjh
