Asterisk footnotes

[John Gruber]

Aaron Swartz <me at aaronsw.com> wrote on 11/7/05 at 11:30 PM:


> What about requiring a space before the bullet?


In which case? The case of where you want this:

 * Something here

to be the footnote, not a single-item unordered list?

My first impression is no, this wouldn't be a good rule, because in
every other case I can think of off the top of my head, Markdown
ignores 1-3 spaces at the beginning of a line, so it'd seem weird to
me have a situation where a single line-leading space is meaningful.
But it's just a first impression.

-J.G.