Footnote Component

[Eugene Ghanizadeh]

Summary: footnotes are useful and easy to add. They can be useful in all manners of programming/tech-related writing, including blogs and software documentation.

This is a preview of proposed syntax:

This is paragraph one [This is footnote one](:Footnote).

This is paragraph two [](:Footnote (id=something))

> :Footnote id=something
>
> This is footnote two (and [here](https://google.com) is also a link).

> :Footnotes

This would incorporate:

• an inline component and a quoted component (for more involved footnote text), linkable with internal IDs
• a Footnotes component (for placement of footnotes)
• a post-processor for gathering footnotes and rendering them (statically)

Original discussion can be viewed here.

[Tyson Williams]

I also love when it is possible to use a hyperlink to go from each footnote back to where the incoming link was. See this blog post as an example of this functionality.

[Eugene Ghanizadeh]

will be deployed via @codedoc/core@0.2.15.

[Eugene Ghanizadeh]

I also love when it is possible to use a hyperlink to go from each footnote back to where the incoming link was. See this blog post as an example of this functionality.

Also @TysonMN although originally I liked the idea for its usability, I didn't end up implementing it in this first iteration. Reasons being:

• It is unclear which note should you return to, in case multiple points reference the same foot note (which they can)
• You get the same functionality with browser's back button (which seems to be working fine on Chrome, Safari and Firefox)

[Tyson Williams]

Those are good reasons. Thanks for the great work. I can't wait to test! :)

[Eugene Ghanizadeh]

published via @codedoc/core@0.2.15

[Tyson Williams]

Works great. I am excited to start using this in one of my draft posts. Thanks! :)

[Eugene Ghanizadeh]

thanks for the suggestion!