Footnote support in Markdown

[Michel Fortin]

Le 2007-01-23 à 14:06, Jonathan Deber a écrit :


> (Actually, I do have one feature suggestion for the PHP Markdown

> Extra syntax.  If you're posting to a CMS system where multiple

> articles may appear on the same HTML page, you need to assign each

> article a GUID so that the footnote links make sense (i.e., you can't

> have two articles that both use "fnref" as the anchor name for the

> footnotes, since you would end up with two anchors with the same name

> if two articles are published on the same page).  It's of course

> possible to do this with a search and replace of "fnref" to something

> like "2007-01-23-1" prior to publishing.  But, it would be nice if

> you could specify a document GUID and have the Markdown processor do

> that substitution for you.)


It's already possible if you instantiate the parser yourself instead  
of calling the simplified Markdown function:

     $parser = new Markdown_Parser;
     $parser->fn_id_prefix = $entry_guid;
     $text = $parser->transform($text);



> I'm sorry if this has been discussed before; I didn't notice any

> mention of it on the list archives, but the search functionality

> seems to be a bit lacking.


And you could add that archives before April 2006 are hard to find:  
you have to manually craft the URLs for each months because they are  
not in the main list. Two and a half years of discussion are  
"missing" like this.


Michel Fortin
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