On Thursday 12 February 2015 12:49 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
Aloha Vaidheeswaran,
This is an odd example that I don't recall having seen in any
publication. I don't doubt examples might exist, but don't remember
having seen one. Can you point me to a real-world example of a footnote
referring to a subsequent footnote that I might reference either on-line
or in my local library?
I am OCRing this book:
http://wenshuchan-online.weebly.com/uploads/9/4/8/2/9482304/chan-and-zen-teachingpdf.pdf.
This book is atleast 50 years old.
You can find the converted files here:
https://archive.org/details/TheDiamondCutterOfDoubts
The actual text extract goes something as below. I am attaching the
scanned image of the book in question.
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# page 159
Now they saw uncountable and limitless numbers of living beings in the
universe[fn:145-1] and wondered when all these beings could be saved
and how they could obtain the Buddha fruit since the universe would
never be emptied of these beings.
# page 169
#+BEGIN_QUOTE
'Subhuti, what do you think? If someone filled the Universe[fn:155-4]
with the seven treasures[fn:155-5] and gave them all as alms, would
his merit be great?’
Subhuti replied: 'Very great, World Honoured One. Why? Because this
merit is not the nature of merit, the Tathagata says it is
great.’[fn:155-6]
‘Subhuti, if on the other hand, someone received and kept even a four
line stanza of this sutra and expounded it to others, his merit would
surpass that (of the giver of treasures). Why? (Because), Subhuti, all
Buddhas and their Supreme-Enlightenment-Dharma originate from this
sutra. Subhuti, the so-called Buddhas and Dharmas are not real Buddhas
and Dharmas.'[fn:155-7]
#+END_QUOTE
[fn:145-1] Literally ‘the great trichiliocosm’. See footnote 4, p.
169.[fn:155-4]
[fn:155-4] Tri-sahasra-maha-sahasra-loka-dhatu=a great
trichiliocosm. Mt. Sumeru and its seven surrounding continents, eight
seas and ring of iron mountains form one small world; 1,000 of these
form a small chiliocosm; 1,000 of these small chiliocosms form a
medium chiliocosm; 1,000 of these form a great chiliocosm, which
consists of 1,000,000,000 small worlds. The word ‘universe’ is used
for convenience sake.
All the best,
Tom
Vaidheeswaran<vaidheeswaran.chinnar...@gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday 12 February 2015 02:42 AM, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
It does, e.g., when exporting to LaTeX. This is an odt limitation. So,
I disagree, `org-export-footnote-first-reference-p' is correct here.
Let me put my question this way:
What changes need to be made in ox.el and/or ox-odt.el so that the
snippet I shared produces the right XML acceptable for LibreOffice.
text1 [fn:1]
text2 [fn:2]
[fn:1] footdef1[fn:2]
[fn:2] footdef2
For purposes of ODT backend, we need to find the 'site of first
reference' THAT IS OUTSIDE OF A foonote definition. Would it be
possible for you to augment the API so that I can request such a
reference.
NOTE: The XML that is emitted by the ODT exporter, suggests that the
'[fn:2]' occurring in '[fn:1]' is treated as site of first
reference. We would like to make '[fn:2]' occurring next to 'text2' be
treated as the site of first reference. If we do that, everything
will be just right.