Include instructions for multi-line footnotes

[trosel]

I can see that it works with them, but I don't know how the indentation is parsed. Can I have markdown lists inside a footnote?

[vaetas]

Hello, I have tested this right now with markdown copied from here. You need to indent all lines to make them stay inside the footnote. So, yes, you can have lists inside footnotes.

Minor change is that multi-paragraph footnote will be wrapped inside p tag (this is probably because of markdown parsing). This might add padding to the footnote and indentation will not be the same. I think that wrapping regular single-line footnotes in p tag would "fix" this (make them look same).

Faster fix would be to remove padding from p tag inside footnotes in CSS.

[tflo]

I can confirm that lists, and also multiple paragraphs inside one footnote work fine. At least with kramdown (as used with Jekyll). But it shouldn’t be a problem with other Markdown flavors either.

Example here: http://static.jekyll.dflect.net/CSS-Test/ (The first footnote is after “Heading 3”, the second one after “Heading 4”.)

[sergeyklay]

Multi-line footnotes works out of box in Hugo:

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It also works well with lists:

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      - On a windy day let's go flying
      - There may be no trees to rest on
      - There may be no clouds to ride
      - But we'll have our wings and the wind will be with us
      - That's enough for me, that's enough for me.

In addition, there is the possibility to force break strings into separate lines, for example for poetry footnotes:

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      On a windy day let's go flying\
      There may be no trees to rest on\
      There may be no clouds to ride\
      But we'll have our wings and the wind will be with us\
      That's enough for me, that's enough for me.

And the main rule, as mentioned above is to indent all lines to make them stay inside the footnote.

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