Hi all, I wanted to be able to do footnotes on my blog, and I’ve gotten them working! On posts, at least. Footnotes won’t render on your main blog page, since it appears that write.as doesn’t run custom JavaScript on that part. You need to have a Pro account, since this requires custom JavaScrip…

This is brilliant. Great work! Just given it a whirl and it works very well. As you say, if footnotes are shown on any excerpt or full post on your main homepages they don’t render, but they look great on the actual post.

Great! I’m glad it’s working. Yeah, unfortunately the limitation regarding the main blog page is the nature of the platform, and isn’t something that we can script around. It’d only work if write.as ran our custom scripts on the blog page proper.

[image] ASilentDiplomat: [1] This is a reference to some text. The CommonMark approach to footnotes, coming from PANDOC , and implemented in the cmark-gfm version of CommonMark (but not yet standardized) requires a colon in the reference definition: ... Foo[^1]... [^1]: This is a footnote.

Okay, but as I said in my original post, that should work with this script. I didn’t see any reason to require it, though. What distinguishes a footnote from its reference is the absence of the ^, since for some reason the form [^#]: does not display on write.as.

We are thinking more and more about how to incorporate extended Markdown syntax into Write.as beyond the MathJax implementation. CommonMark and MultiMarkdown are being considered, so hopefully having footnotes via Markdown will be something coming up in the queue @ASilentDiplomat and @how .

Tried to use this script but wouldn’t display the reference text - lack of footnotes is a dealbreaker for me in a platform.

Hi @lss ! Did you add the above code to the Custom JavaScript of your blog and use the following format in a post? I will make a note here. [^1] Footnotes: [1] Here is the footnote I am trying to think what could be getting in the way. Any common hangups you encountered when implementing this @AS…

Thanks - managed onto get the footnotes to work - was using [^2] [2]: note - with a colon - as opposed to [^3] [3] note - without the colon, which works

That same thing very caught me up too. Glad you got it working now!

@lss @cjeller1592 Glad you got it working! And yes, I had to leave out the colon in the note reference, because for some reason Write.as wouldn’t display anything with the format [number]: . Since this is a bit of a hack, we have to made do :slight_smile:

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