Footnotes: Credits

ORGWEBPAGE/Changes.org

@@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ work in buffers that are not in Org-mode, for example in email
 messages.  Just bind =org-footnote-action= to a global key like
 =C-c f=.
 
+The main trigger for this development came from a hook function
+written by Paul Rivier, to implement named footnotes and to
+convert them to numbered ones before export.  Thanks, Paul!
+
 *** Line numbers and references in literal examples
 
 Literal examples introduced with =#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE= or =#+BEGIN_SRC=

doc/org.texi

@@ -10192,6 +10192,8 @@ provided frequent feedback.
 @i{Matthias Rempe} (Oelde) provided ideas, Windows support, and quality
 control.
 @item
+@i{Paul Rivier} provided the basic implementation of named footnotes.
+@item
 @i{Kevin Rogers} contributed code to access VM files on remote hosts.
 @item
 @i{Sebastian Rose} wrote @file{org-info.js}, a Java script for displaying