Footnote markdown plugin

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Posting an example of a footnote [1] for illustration. As with other hyperlinks, the color is a bit dark in the Dark theme–at least in the editor’s Preview Pane. :thinking:

NOTE: The footnote is created with the Markdown code ^[This is a handy footnote...] and looks like a proper footnote while editing until you submit the footnoted post. Then it turns into an inline note as in @pradyunsg’s post. This is strange behavior. Does anyone know why Discourse does this?

NOT SOLVED. Still getting nothing but inline notes. A post over at meta.discourse.org shows two locations for the caret:

  • Before the square bracket with text inside: ^[A pithy inline note]
  • Inside the first square bracket to make a ‘goto’ or ‘jump’ type label/reference [^1]

Examples:
The caret in front of the brackets produces an inline note [2].

The caret inside with a label produces a standard footnote [3]. The label itself (at the footnote itself) is identical except has a colon after it, like so [^1]:

  1. This is a handy footnote with links back and forth from the body while editing but turns into […] after submitting. Wuzzupwidat? ↩︎

  2. …like this ↩︎

  3. Begone with your pithy note. Here is an amusing limerick! ↩︎