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 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…

+1 for any footnote developments or workarounds :pray:t4: footnotes are a critical component in publishing :writing_hand:t4:

I’m using a german keyboard and german layout. So what you suggested does not work. Pressing shift + ^ symbol would result in a ° Just pressing ^ does add another ^ next to it the moment you hit another key (any other key btw). So it does not work great… it does not work at all.

Yeah… actually I got the confirmation via support chat. Some things (including subscript and superscript) are just not working for users without a US English keyboard layout (on macOS … don’t know about windows or other platforms). For example a German one which has / adds “dead keys” after typing ^…

Is it possible to link directly to a footnote? To date, I’ve just been using the [1] ^ trick and linking each footnote generically to the Literature Cited Section. I would prefer to be able to link to individual citations in the Literature Cited section. I’m not sure if this is possible as I thought …

i love that example! manually encoded and referencing with markdown is a lot of friction for writers who just want to write (imho) and in some sense, it feels like it’s not quite the ethos ghost, or perhaps i’m wrong as an alternative, could this be done with a chrome extension? for now, it’s crud…

Footnote support in editor

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+1 for any footnote developments or workarounds

footnotes are a critical component in publishing

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Footnote support in editor

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