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
