Re: [Orgmode] Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]

2010-09-02 Thread Samuel Wales
One possibility for difficult cases such as these might be extensible syntax (which is designed for parsing risk). The idea would be to allow, for footnotes, an alternate syntax using extensible syntax. Then it could handle anything. Also, it would not be necessary to hack on the footnote code qu

Re: [Orgmode] Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]

2010-09-02 Thread Alan Tyree
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > On Sep 1, 2010, at 12:19 AM, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:09:58 +0200 >> Carsten Dominik wrote: >> >> Hi Aidan, >>> >>> unfortunately this is difficult to fix in a good way. >>> I do want to go back to footnotes, becau

Re: [Orgmode] Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]

2010-09-02 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Sep 1, 2010, at 12:19 AM, Alan L Tyree wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:09:58 +0200 Carsten Dominik wrote: Hi Aidan, unfortunately this is difficult to fix in a good way. I do want to go back to footnotes, because I think there are many things that do not yet work satisfactorily. And then

Re: [Orgmode] Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]

2010-09-01 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:09:58 +0200 Carsten Dominik wrote: > Hi Aidan, > > unfortunately this is difficult to fix in a good way. > I do want to go back to footnotes, because I think there are many > things that do not yet work satisfactorily. And then I also hope to > address the issue you r

Re: [Orgmode] Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]

2010-09-01 Thread Scot Becker
Well I use biblatex to produce the chicago citations, used pretty widely in the humanities in N. America, and the LaTeX \cite{} commands under that setup take their optional arguments in square brackets. The most frequent optional argument is a page number for the citation, but I also use them for

Re: [Orgmode] Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]

2010-08-31 Thread Aidan Gauland
Alan L Tyree wrote: > Disable footnotes like [2010], but keep footnotes like [fn:2010] > > The reason is that I write legal texts that have references to case law > that look like: Marreco v Richardson [1908] 2 KB 584. The dates in > square brackets are an essential part of the reference. Perhaps

Re: [Orgmode] Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]

2010-08-31 Thread Aidan Gauland
Thanks! That works fine. I suppose I should point out that I only used = an ASCII export for the example situation, but I ran into this problem expor= ting to HTML. --Aidan Gauland signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Emacs-orgmo

Re: [Orgmode] Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]

2010-08-31 Thread Scot Becker
Giovanni, Thanks for that. I have the same problem, since I put citations in my footnotes in the format \cite[50]{Ridolfi_2011_Autobiography}. This is great. It's also a nice model for a few other petty troubles I want to postprocess away. Scot On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Giovanni Rido

Re: [Orgmode] Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]

2010-08-31 Thread Giovanni Ridolfi
Carsten Dominik writes: > unfortunately this is difficult to fix in a good way. > I do want to go back to footnotes, because I think there are many > things that do not yet work satisfactorily. And then I also hope to > address the issue you raised. For the time being, unfortunately, I do > not

Re: [Orgmode] Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]

2010-08-31 Thread Christian Moe
This is a two-part problem. 1. Right square bracket in inline footnote prematurely terminates the footnote. IMO this is not a bug, it's an inherent and quite reasonable limitation on the inline footnote format, and is easily solved by falling back on the block footnote syntax. #+

Re: [Orgmode] Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]

2010-08-31 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi Aidan, unfortunately this is difficult to fix in a good way. I do want to go back to footnotes, because I think there are many things that do not yet work satisfactorily. And then I also hope to address the issue you raised. For the time being, unfortunately, I do not have a solution f

Re: [Orgmode] Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]

2010-08-31 Thread Andreas Röhler
Am 31.08.2010 12:43, schrieb Giovanni Ridolfi: Aidan Gauland writes: Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.0.50.6 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) of 2010-08-29 on dimension8 Package: Org-mode version 7.01trans It is impossible to have closing brackets in a footnote, because they are treat

Re: [Orgmode] Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]

2010-08-31 Thread Giovanni Ridolfi
Aidan Gauland writes: > Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.0.50.6 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.1) > of 2010-08-29 on dimension8 > Package: Org-mode version 7.01trans > It is impossible to have closing brackets in a footnote, because they > are treated as the closing bracket for the foot note

[Orgmode] Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]

2010-08-31 Thread Aidan Gauland
It is impossible to have closing brackets in a footnote, because they are treated as the closing bracket for the foot note. Example... * A heading This is a broken footnote.[fn:: Some book at [42-24].] This will export to (as ASCII, for example)... org-fn-bug-example