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| author | https://id.koumbit.net/anarcat <https://id.koumbit.net/anarcat@web> | 2016-05-04 09:45:25 -0400 |
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| committer | admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2016-05-04 09:45:25 -0400 |
| commit | bd881a8ee6dee2f06118596f78c5ac9296a35098 (patch) | |
| tree | f90242ec5259fff5f24bb208b2540d95713acce7 /doc/bugs | |
| parent | 291a09e537ae0eef20dd17b0fe1d3bc0a87b9707 (diff) | |
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response: confirmation it's a bug in MMD and Discount doesn't have footnotes, and request for workaround
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/footnotes-look-weird.mdwn b/doc/bugs/footnotes-look-weird.mdwn index 86a132333..7ea9f240c 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/footnotes-look-weird.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/footnotes-look-weird.mdwn @@ -62,5 +62,34 @@ screen readers), as detailed in [this Stack Overflow discussion][]. > summary? > --[[smcv]] +>> That is an accurate summary. +>> +>> I didn't realize that Discount didn't actually support footnotes in +>> Ikiwiki by default. I guess I enabled Multimarkdown exactly for that +>> kind of stuff that was missing... It seems to me it would be +>> reasonable to enable footnotes in Ikiwiki. There's already a lot of +>> stuff that Discount does that is way more exotic (e.g. tables) and +>> non-standard (e.g. `abbr:`). +>> +>> Ideally, users would get to configure which +>> [Discount flags](http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/markdown/#flags) +>> are enabled in their configuration, but I understand that makes the +>> configuration more complicated and error-prone. +>> +>> For example, to enable footnotes, one needs to call Discount like this: +>> +>> Text::Markdown::Discount::markdown($text, Text::Markdown::Discount::MKD_EXTRA_FOOTNOTE()) +>> +>> That being said, Discount generates proper semantic markup when +>> footnotes, so this bug doesn't apply to the default Discount mode, +>> if we ignore the fact that it doesn't support footnotes at all. +>> Should I open a todo about this and the above? +>> +>> Also, it seems this *is* a bug with multimarkdown - I have +>> [reported the issue there](https://github.com/bobtfish/text-multimarkdown/issues/30). +>> +>> In the meantime, wouldn't it be better to have some styling here to +>> workaround the problem in MMD? + Note that I also make the bottom `<div>` small as well so that it has less weight than the rest of the text. -- [[anarcat]] |