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?