I’m not sure why we need to have two separate threads on this discussion, as now we’ve got other comments off in another area, and some practical stuff is now over here instead—should I just merge all of this so that future readers do not need to dig into your posting history in order to find the full discussion on the matter?
I would be inclined to merge this back over into the LaTeX discussion area, since what you’re asking for is entirely impossible (in a laws of the universe sort of way, not even for Scrivener specifically) as a wish list request anyway.
@Scrive: After years of development through three complete versions of Scrivener, I am sure there is a good reason why the option to Export inspector and/or inline footnotes as endnotes when compiling to ‘Plain Text (.txt)’ is not available.
I can only reiterate what has already been said:
@AmberV: Given that, how could such a checkbox ever exist in a way that does anything meaningful? If we want multiple notation streams in XML, we need to configure that into our document design. Likewise for LaTeX. These are questions of configuration, or the relationship between the Format and the content.
I’m actually really struggling to understand what you are expecting here of such a checkbox, in a practical sense. What is a footnote in a .txt file? That’s what I’d start with. Endnotes of some placement strategy, I understand, but footnotes? To what foot are we attaching the note, in a .txt file?
I hope this doesn’t come across as dismissive. I just feel a bit dense here, like I’m missing something obvious.