{"id":11366,"date":"2023-05-18T14:18:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T18:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=11366"},"modified":"2023-05-18T14:18:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T18:18:22","slug":"org-footnote-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=11366","title":{"rendered":"Org Footnote Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Lazzarini has an interesting, small package to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/lazzalazza\/org-footnote-assistant\">help with footnote creation and editing in Org buffers<\/a>. The package offers some amenities such as easily moving between footnotes but, to me, the major win is displaying  or editing a footnote in a cloned indirect window similar to the way editing a code block works after invoking <code>org-edit-special<\/code> to call <code>org-edit-src-code<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t matter too much for short texts such as a blog post but for longer-form texts where you can\u2019t see the whole buffer, it makes it easier to create and edit footnotes because you can see the context of the footnote. If you\u2019ve edited the contents of a code block using this paradigm, you know how powerful and convenient it is.<\/p>\n<p>My only complaint is that the package doesn\u2019t define or override keybindings to find or edit a footnote. That\u2019s easy enough to do yourself, of course, but I\u2019m a bit surprised it isn\u2019t already there.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I can tell, <code>org-footnote-assistant<\/code> is not in MELPA and Lazzarini doesn\u2019t mention any plans one way or the other. Still, it\u2019s a single file so it would be easy to install it manually. The project is less than a week old so I\u2019m sure issues with an ELPA repository and keybindings will be addressed as the project matures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Lazzarini has an interesting, small package to help with footnote creation and editing in Org buffers. The package offers some amenities such as easily moving between footnotes but, to me, the major win is displaying or editing a footnote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=11366\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,4],"class_list":["post-11366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs","tag-org-mode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11367,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366\/revisions\/11367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}