Protesilaos Stavrou <i...@protesilaos.com> writes: > I have an Org file with contents like the following: > > This is a test 1 [fn:n24aa:These are the contents] and here is more. > > When I do an HTML export, the footnote's label (n24aa) is not preserved > in the exported HTML. Is this intended behaviour? I was expecting it to > keep the label as a user-defined unique identifier.
Yes, this is indented behaviour, AFAIU. > I looked into the ox.el and noticed that the export data does include > the labels. But 'org-html-footnote-reference' does not have a call to > get the label: it assigns a number outright. To experiment with > retrieving the data, I tried this: > ... > (let* ((n (or > (org-export-get-footnote-label footnote-reference) > (org-export-get-footnote-number footnote-reference info))) > ... > Can we have footnotes with their label preserved? Or maybe is this going > to break a lot of functionality? I am aware the above not work for > footnote definitions, as those also get the number. The problem arises when only some footnotes have a label: This is a test 1 [fn:n24aa:These are the contents] and here is more[fn::another one]. What to do with the unlabelled ones? Assign a number? If yes, what kind of number? `org-export-get-footnote-number' counts all the footnotes, including labelled ones; so that returned number will be 2 in the above example, leading to awkward ^n24aa followed by ^2 footnote. But even without `org-export-get-footnote-number', ^n24aa ^1 mixture might be awkward. One way could be only using footnote labels when _all_ the footnotes are labelled. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>