Footnote output markup

Michel Fortin michel.fortin at michelf.com
Sun Sep 17 22:13:03 EDT 2006


Le 17 sept. 2006 à 19:44, John Gruber a écrit :


> One suggestion on that output above. On Daring Fireball, I

> recently changed to inserting a ` ` 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.


That's a nice little touch. I think I'll adopt it.


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




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