Multiple paragraph footnotes in org-mode

emacs, footnotes, org-mode

Solution

According to the org mode manual:

If you need a paragraph break inside a footnote, use the LaTeX idiom ‘\par’.

It worked for me:

This some text[fn:1]. This is another text[fn:2].

* Footnotes

[fn:1] This is footnote's first line.\par
\par
This is footnote's second line.

[fn:2] Another footnote

Problem

I have an org-mode document with a footnote: ``` This some text[fn:1]. This is another text[fn:2]. * Footnotes [fn:1] This is footnote's first line. This is footnote's second line. [fn:2] Another footnote ``` Then i resort and renumber footnotes by pressing C-u C-c C-x f S - `org-footnote-action` which executes `(org-footnote-renumber-fn:N)` and `(org-footnote-normalize 'sort)`. The result is: ``` This some text[fn:1]. This is another text[fn:2]. * Footnotes [fn:1] This is footnote's first line. [fn:2] Another footnote ``` The second paragraph of the footnote is lost. This makes multiple paragraph footnotes impossible in org-mode. One semi-solution is to make a separate footnote for every paragraph, but i don't want that. Is there any possibility to preserve structure in the footnote? What should i do to make org-mode not delete the text in the footnotes?

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