Inline footnotes
I've recently have fallen in love with Brett Terpstra's way of handling footnotes in his Markdown services bundle. The syntax is as follows:
This is some text.(*[LABEL] footnote text.*)
Which when the service is used turns to
This is some text.[^LABEL]
[^LABEL]: footnote text.
Why do I think this should be added to MultiMarkdown? So iOS text editors will support it natively.
Thank you for your time.
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Support Staff 1 Posted by fletcher on 23 Mar, 2013 03:36 PM
Toffer,
Thanks for the proposal. I saw that Brett had proposed this, but haven't really looked into it yet.
However, a problem with the proposal is that it conflicts with existing Markdown syntax:
This is some text.(*[Label] footnote text.*)
could mean that `[Label] footnote text.` should be inside parentheses and made italics, and [Label] is a link that is intended to be included in the footnote.
The proposed syntax would have to be a bit more "reliable" before I would add it to the official MMD syntax.
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2 Posted by Toffer Surovec on 23 Mar, 2013 03:44 PM
I didn't think of that at all. That's a very solid point. Maybe: ~(*[Label] footnote text*)? Maybe just [Label](footnote test.) I know that looks just like a link but couldn't it parse for spaces between brackets? That would be a problem with one word footnotes though…
That's just the first few ideas, but even those could have problems I guess.
Thank you for your time and MultiMarkdown it has saved me time, effort, and really has made writing anything so much easier.
Toffer Surovec
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fletcher closed this discussion on 25 Mar, 2013 11:21 AM.