Footnote output markup

[John Gruber]

Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote on 9/16/06 at 6:03 PM:


>      <li id="fn:1">

>      <p>And that's the footnote.

>         <a href="#fnref:1" rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>

>      </li>


I'll try to find more time to comment on this soon, but overall it
looks like a great job.

One suggestion on that output above. On Daring Fireball, I
recently changed to inserting a `&nbsp;` entity between the end of
the last paragraph of the footnote and the '↩' marker. This way,
if you wind up in a situation where the '↩' would wrap to the next
line all by itself, it'll take the previous word with it.

I.e. instead of this (rendered output):

    1.  This is the text of the footnote. Blah blah blah.
        ↩

you'll get this:

    1.  This is the text of the footnote. Blah blah
        blah. ↩

It's a low-tech way to avoid very ugly widows.

-J.G.