Re: including one double quote in an anonymous footnote?

[Juan Manuel Macías]

Hi Greg,

Greg Minshall writes:

> hi.  experimenting [after significant confusion!], it appears that
> including a single (unpaired) double quote inside an anonymous footnote
> eliminates the recognition of the footnote.  is this intentional?
>
> this works:
> ----
> this is a test.[fn:: a very long footnote]
> ----
>
> whereas this doesn't:
> ----
> this is a test.[fn:: "a very long footnote]
> ----
>
> i notice that for purposes of exporting, i can have the single double
> quote accepted by escaping it with a backslash:
> ----
> this is a test.[fn:: \"a very long footnote]
> ----
> but,
> - the backslash itself shows up in both latex and html exporting
> - the footnote doesn't get displayed in the org buffer as a footnote
>   (the separate colors; this is "font locking"?)
>
> Org mode version 9.5.2 (9.5.2-gbb6830 @ 
> /home/minshall/.emacs.d/straight/build/org/)

I can confirm that behavior. One possible solution is to use an entity
(M-x org-entities-help):

this is a test.[fn:: \quot{}a very long footnote]

Best regards,

Juan Manuel