Re: [O] How to make footnotes be fnlocal by default?

[William Denton]

Thanks, Kyle and Rasmus.

Attached is a tiny patch to add mention of this variable in the section of the 
docs where all those options are listed.

Bill


On 16 June 2015, Rasmus wrote:

> William Denton <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I'm writing something with a bunch of footnotes and instead of doing
> > them by hand I'm using C-c C-x f, which in the usual Emacs/Org way
> > strikes me as a more difficult at first but then turns into magic.
> >
> > By default, adding a footnote puts it at the bottom of the document.
> > This is because of org-footnote-define-inline:
> >
> > 'Non-nil means define footnotes inline, at reference location. When
> > nil, footnotes will be defined in a special section near the end of
> > the document. When t, the [fn:label:definition] notation will be used
> > to define the footnote at the reference position."
> >
> > However, there are three (not two) possible options available in
> > STARTUP options:
> >
> > > fninline    define footnotes inline
> > > fnnoinline  define footnotes in separate section
> > > fnlocal     define footnotes near first reference, but not inline
> >
> > I found I like fnlocal, which puts the footnotes at the bottom of the
> > paragraph or section, where they are nearby and easy to see.
> >
> > I'd like to make this the default in all Org files by setting
> > org-footnote-define-inline, but it seems I can't---all I can definte
> > that way are the fninline and fnnoinline options.  Am I correct?  Is
> > there some way around this, or perhaps a (setq
> > org-footnote-define-inline 'fnlocal) setting could be added?
>
> How about:
>    (setq org-footnote-section nil)
>
> Rasmus

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