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Re: [O] [ox/ox-latex] Footnotes in titles


From: Nicolas Goaziou
Subject: Re: [O] [ox/ox-latex] Footnotes in titles
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 17:11:34 +0100

Hello,

Rasmus <address@hidden> writes:

> Consider the following example
>
>     #+TITLE: [ox-latex, bug] footnotes in titles[fn:1]
>     #+AUTHOR: Rasmus[fn:2]
>
>     [fn:1] I'd like to thank Nicolas for considering this bug
>     [fn:2] spammer of the org mailing list
>
> The desired ox-latex output is something like:
>
>     \author{Rasmus\thanks{spammer of the org mailing list}}
>     \title{[ox-latex, bug] footnotes in titles%
>       \thanks{I'd like to thank Nicolas for considering this bug}}
>
> But actual output is something like:
>
>     \author{Rasmus\footnotemark[nil]{}}
>     \date{\today}
>     \title{[ox-latex, bug] footnotes in titles\footnotemark[nil]{}}
>
> It's not too bad: ox-html breaks on this document.
>
> I guess it's a limitation of org-element, since 
>
>     (org-element-map (org-element-parse-buffer) 'footnote-reference
>                      (lambda (fn) (org-element-property :label fn)))
>     => ("fn:2")                 
>
> Footnote in titles are often used for acknowledgments.
> Footnote for authors are sometimes for associations.
>
> Is the current treatment the desired treatment?

In fact, I have a local branch that tries to properly support footnotes
in TITLE. However, I don't think it can work in the general case.

Indeed, there is no way for the export process to know whether the title
is going to be exported or not. Note that :with-title is not sufficient,
because the export back-end may ignore its value. Current export could
also be "body only", but, again, some back-ends may use title within
body, and not template. During a "subtree" export, the TITLE keyword
could be overridden by an EXPORT_TITLE property...

If the export process cannot have this information,
`org-export-get-footnote-number' and
`org-export-footnote-first-reference-p' return values are not reliable
anymore.

As a consequence, I have /another/ local branch that disables footnotes
in keywords altogether.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou



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