Let $$p\ge 1, \ell \in \mathbb {N}, \alpha ,\beta >-1$$ and $$\varpi =(\omega _0,\omega _1, \ldots , \omega _{\ell -1})\in \mathbb {R}^{\ell }$$ . Given a suitable function f, we define the discrete–continuous Jacobi–Sobolev norm of f as: $$\begin{aligned} \Vert f \Vert _{{\scriptscriptstyle \mathsf {s}},{\scriptscriptstyle p}}:= \left( \sum _{k=0}^{\ell -1} \left| f^{(k)}(\omega _{k})\right| ^{p} + \int _{-1}^{1} \left| f^{(\ell )}(x)\right| ^{p} \mathrm{d}\mu ^{\alpha ,\beta }(x)\right) ^{\frac{1}{p}}, \end{aligned}$$ where $$ \mathrm{d}\mu ^{\alpha ,\beta }(x)=(1-x)^{\alpha } (1+x)^{\beta }\mathrm{d}x$$ . Obviously, $$\Vert \cdot \Vert _{{\scriptscriptstyle \mathsf {s}},{\scriptscriptstyle 2}}= \sqrt{\langle \cdot ,\cdot \rangle _{{\scriptscriptstyle \mathsf {s}}}}$$ , where $$\langle \cdot ,\cdot \rangle _{{\scriptscriptstyle \mathsf {s}}}$$ is the inner product $$\begin{aligned} \langle f,g \rangle _{{\scriptscriptstyle \mathsf {s}}}:= \sum _{k=0}^{\ell -1} f^{(k)}(\omega _{k}) \, g^{(k)}(\omega _{k}) + \int _{-1}^{1} f^{(\ell )}(x) \,g^{(\ell )}(x) \mathrm{d}\mu ^{\alpha ,\beta }(x). \end{aligned}$$ In this paper, we summarize the main advances on the convergence of the Fourier–Sobolev series, in norms of type $$L^p$$ , in the continuous and discrete cases, respectively. Additionally, we study the completeness of the Sobolev space of functions associated with the norm $$\Vert \cdot \Vert _{{\scriptscriptstyle \mathsf {s}},{\scriptscriptstyle p}}$$ and the denseness of the polynomials. Furthermore, we obtain the conditions for the convergence in $$\Vert \cdot \Vert _{{\scriptscriptstyle \mathsf {s}},{\scriptscriptstyle p}}$$ norm of the partial sum of the Fourier–Sobolev series of orthogonal polynomials with respect to $$\langle \cdot ,\cdot \rangle _{{\scriptscriptstyle \mathsf {s}}}$$ .