So, earlier I was having a bit of trouble with a practical idea of how to implement footnotes in Markdown/Jekyll. Now I think I’ve come up with a practical solution. Check it out as an example here. [1]
Footnotes:
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The idea is to have a separate section at the end of the article for footnotes. When I want to indicate a particular footnote reference in the middle of the text, I can use name anchors and links for that. Unfortunately, this also has the potential to get a bit messy if I need to reformat.
Suffice it to say, this also makes data migrations more difficult. I may just as well end up using my older proposed syntax to write the source information, then run it through a script converter to use the more fancy footnote format that is more similar to what readers are accustomed to seeing elsewhere on the web, especially Wikipedia.
- I realized that overly-simplistic name anchors would cause conflicts in the pagination view. Using a random prefix can help mitigate this, but again, that means that the authorship is yet more challenging without automatic generation.