Footnotes

[Michel Fortin]

I was asking myself last weekend what exactly could be a great syntax 
for footnotes (which could be part of PHP Markdown Extra). I think John 
just used it:

John Gruber wrote:


> If you want to specify alignment, you'll have to assign a class to

> the paragraph. [^1]  Or to a parent div:

>

> [...]

>

> [^1]: Search the list archives for some of my syntax ideas for how

>     you might be able to assign classes to paragraphs and other

>     block elements.


And for multiple-paragraph footnotes[^2], just indent the second 
paragraph, or the blockquote, or the list...

[^2]: First paragraph for this footnote
	using two lines.

	Second paragraph for the footnote.

     > blockquote

     * list

Footnotes could appear anywhere, but would be put automatically at the 
end of the document.

It still need a little more thought, especially about id attributes 
which should not clash with anything else on the same page. Often, 
there is more than one weblog entry on a page.


Michel Fortin
michel.fortin at michelf.com
http://www.michelf.com/