fun with footnotes

If you put a note on your foot, it’s a footnote.[1]
All you gotta do is use a caret,[2] and some brackets.[3]

Like thisaway:

Sentence text.^[footnote text]

[4]
[5]


  1. You know it’s true, because there’s a footnote. ↩︎

  2. ^ ↩︎

  3. [ ] ↩︎

  4. It even works all by itself, if you really want it to. ↩︎

  5. And it just keeps on increasing the footnote number on its own. Easy as you please. ↩︎

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Well, poo. When you post the thing, it makes a funky ellipsis instead of the superscript numbers and footnotes at the bottom that you crafted so carefully. So much for a fun discovery. Discourse, you done it again!

Click on the dotdotdots to see the fun with footnotes that don’t make any sense anymore. :roll_eyes:

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Discourse![1]


  1. we ruin everything! ↩︎

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(post depilated by author) [1]


  1. This is a footnote ↩︎

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Hmm…

I’d guess that the forum is set to use inline expansion of footnotes, since my post above used the full, “explicit” footnoting schema and it was still reduced to inline expansion:

(post depilated by author) [^1]

[^1]: This is a footnote

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Finally! My dreams of becoming the Terry Pratchett of the message board set can be a reality!.[2]


  1. footnote text ↩︎

  2. No. They can’t. ↩︎

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Sweet!

(Now do a footnote that’s not a pipe. :smoking: )

That’s what you get for keeping your tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper.

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Oh, I just figured out what’s going on.

White Dot set up the footnote function for the forum. Duh. :roll_eyes:

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Test.[1]


  1. this is just a test… ↩︎

This ^[is a footnote ^[of a footnote ^[of another footnote]]]

This [1]

This [^1 [^2 [^3]]]
[^1]: is a footnote
[^2]: of a footnote
[^3]: of another footnote

This [^1 [^2 [2]]]

Apparently nesting footnotes doesn’t work. We’ll have to keep doing those the old-fashioned way.


  1. is a footnote [1] ↩︎

  2. of another footnote ↩︎

Footnotes![1]


  1. You’re doing it wrong. ↩︎

Your first one had the number but it didn’t know where it went so it just scrolled your post off the screen.