Nicolas, I don’t know how difficult this would be in terms of the code, but would it be possible to introduce a new syntax for multiparagraph footnotes? Something like:
#+begin_footnote 12 This is footnote number 12. etc. #+end_footnote This has the advantage that long footnote definitions could be folded, which (AFAIK) they currently cannot. And it would not have the problem with multiple lists. Just a suggestion, -- Aaron Ecay