[TxMt] Footnotes

[Dr. Drang]

On 5/11/06, Mark Eli Kalderon <m.kalderon at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Thanks Dr. Drang, but are you sure that MM footnotes can't take a
> single digit after the caret? That hasn't been my experience.

When the input is

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    Let's[^1] try[^2].

    [^1]: First footnote.

    [^2]: Second footnote.

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the output is

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    <p>Let's<a href="#" name="f" class="footnote">1</a> try<a href="#"
name="f" class="footnote">2</a>.</p>

    <div class="footnotes">
    <hr />
    <p>Footnotes:</p>

    <div id=""><p><a href="#f" class="reversefootnote">1.</a> Second
footnote.</p></div>

    <div id=""><p><a href="#f" class="reversefootnote">2.</a> Second
footnote.</p></div>

    </div>

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which is clearly wrong. I used a freshly-downloaded MultiMarkdown.pl.
If I change the input to

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    Let's[^fn1] try[^fn2].

    [^fn1]: First footnote.

    [^fn2]: Second footnote.

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the output is

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    <p>Let's<a href="#fn1" name="ffn1" class="footnote">1</a> try<a
href="#fn2" name="ffn2" class="footnote">2</a>.</p>

    <div class="footnotes">
    <hr />
    <p>Footnotes:</p>

    <div id="fn1"><p><a href="#ffn1" class="reversefootnote">1.</a>
First footnote.</p></div>

    <div id="fn2"><p><a href="#ffn2" class="reversefootnote">2.</a>
Second footnote.</p></div>

    </div>

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which is correct (although I would prefer there be no "Footnotes"
paragraph). As I said in the post, I haven't looked at the code to see
why MM fails to format single-digit markers when there are multiple
footnotes--it just so happened that my first example was done that
way. It may fail under other legitimate input, too.

If I get a chance tonight, I'll look at the MM code and try to figure it out.

-- 
Dr. Drang