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Inconsistent formatting of footnotes between posts and comments
Codidact uses CommonMark for Markdown, which has an extension that supports footnotes using the following format:
Sentence with a footnote[^1] in it.
[^1]: The content of the footnote.
This renders as:
Sentence with a footnote[1] in it.
Note that the footnote is automatically rendered as a link to the footnote at the bottom of this post, and the footnote at the bottom of this post automatically ends with a link back to the position in the text that referred to it.
Such footnotes can be used in both posts and comments (see the example footnote thread below this post). However, in a post the superscript link to the footnote shows in square brackets, as [1] whereas in a comment the superscript link to the footnote shows as a lone number, as 1.
I don't have a strong preference on which format should be used, but I would expect the format to be consistent between posts and comments.
Do you have a preference on which format should be used?
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The content of the footnote. ↩︎
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