I like to use footnotes for links or citations in my blog posts. I make it work with the markdown editor and I’d like to see it added to the new editor, Koenig.

I don’t understand how you don’t see this as a hacky workaround. Something that used to be generated automatically isn’t anymore. What happens when you move paragraphs around? You need to update every link. Also, we used to be able to give meaningfull aliases to references (in the old editor I cou…

That does suck, yeah. As I stated, I didn’t know it used to be generated automatically.

No worries, I was just surprised :slight_smile: I guess we’d need a special type of card for references, that could check the other (markdown) cards for references. Something similar could be done for a “table of contents” card.

I just discovered that footnotes no longer work the way they used to and have been kind of shocked by it - the footnote support was really seamless and back when I was writing more frequently I used it for essentially every post. I do not think the current workaround is really okay at all - it’s ex…

Did anyone try the following extension? [image] GitHub - tivie/showdown-ghost-footnotes: Add footnotes support to showdown Add footnotes support to showdown. Contribute to tivie/showdown-ghost-footnotes development by creating an account on GitHub.

I experienced the same problem with using footnotes without writing the whole post in markdown. Together with a friend, I created a script which allows you to set footnotes. Your visitors can jump between a note like “[1]” inside the post to the explanation and the end of the page and back. I crea…

This looks promising, can it be used without modifying any Ghost core files? I’m a Ghost pro user, so the only thing I can modify is the theme!

Of course, no modifying of core required — what is required is adding the JS file(s) and CSS file(s) to your theme. That being said, you’ll probably have to customise its CSS if you want things to fit perfectly. As well, seeing how this isn’t a plug-in you’ll have to manually apply every Bigfoot foo…

I guess this is one of the downfalls of having a system that isn’t user-extensible. Of course that’s not reason enough alone to switch to another platform. Ghost has many great reasons for people to use it. I do hope that as part of the 4.0 there is some sort of extension system, although I wouldn’t…

Footnote support in editor

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Stromfeldt November 16, 2019, 6:22pm 32

Not me. I’m using Bigfoot.

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Footnote support in editor

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