• AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Protip: don’t use of using an asterisks for footnotes. There is Markdown syntax for that:

    Main[^1] text[^2]
    
    [^1]: First footnote.
    [^2]: Second comment.
    

    It gets rendered like this:

    Main[1] text[2]

    Note that the footnotes don’t have to be at the bottom of the comment. You an put each in a paragraph immediately after its usage, and the Markdown renderer will still put them at the bottom.


    1. First footnote. ↩︎

    2. Second comment. ↩︎

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Neat! I’ll probably forget between now and next time, but I’d never seen that used. Hell, I was proud of figuring out the escape character!