Wrong footnotes when publishing books

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Problem

Individual notes may have footnotes. Those footnotes are numbered in accordance to the file. When the individual topic notes are merged, they keep (as supposed) the footnote number they had.

This causes

• pandoc outputs a warning on duplicated footnotes
• the footnotes in the published are incorrect

First appear

This issue was discovered when merging Operative Systems notes (which have a few scattered footnotes in different files) either to the topic book or to the two full books

Possible Solution

A Markdown pre-processor that counts and replaces all the footnotes number when merging.

[martinspedro]

Problem with the given solution: Can be necessary more than one link to the same footnote...

[martinspedro]

Possible workarounds:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14348432/how-to-find-replace-and-increment-a-matched-number-with-sed-awk
• https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/193935/find-and-replace-values-with-counters