Automatic footnotes

[Joseph Lorenzo Hall]

Of course, there is another way... that is, using the `<acronym>` tag
to mark up footnotes that appear on a mouse-over. Like:

    This is a <acronym title="I went to a bar called foo last
night">footnote</acronym>.

In this case, when you mouse-over the text "footnote" the contents of
the `title` attribute appear as a tooltip.

I'm sure there's plenty of reasons why this is stupid... but I like it
and I've hacked my blogging software (b2evo) to do this rather easily.
 Of course, there is no Markdown syntax for acronyms, and I'm not sure
there should be... and this is probably a total semantic abuse of the
acronym tag anyway! -Joe

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