#StompNotes1
##We've all been in this situation:
You're reading a paragraph of text, minding your own business, when along comes a little super-imposed number1 directing you to either stop what you're doing and reference a note in the back of the book(or if you're lucky, at the end of the page) or just keep on reading so as not to interrupt your flow, even though in the back of your mind, you can't help but wonder what kind of occult knowledge that little footnotes professes to hold the answers to.
If they did, they wouldn't be footnotes, they'd just be notes. Am I right, or am I right2? It's either worth knowing, or it isn't. The problem, though, is that you can't know whether or not its worth knowing until you knowit3, so why make the reader work any harder than necessary for it?
So stop hiding it. StompNotes is a simple solution to this problem. It allows you markup your footnotes in rich, creamy semantic HTML54 and display them alongside their referrer]. Your readers will have no excuse5 but to read your footnotes now!
Really well6, thanks for asking.
We're still in the early stages here. StompNotes is just barely past a proof-of-concept at this point.
- Probably support for a simpler footnote format than the one used in Markdown
- Support for Nelson HTML footnotes
- Support for loading footnotes from a separate page, for longer documents that keep an index of footnotes in their own section
- Maybe more7
- Distribute by some means other than this.
Footnotes
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Hint: it doesn't matter which one you choose! Man, I love being right. ↩
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Kind of a Catch-22, isn't it? ↩
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Right now, it only supports the footnote format proposed by John Gruber which is implemented in many Markdown processors. ↩
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Ok, let's not kid ourselves here — they will probably ignore them still, but that's their problem. ↩
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Actually, it could definitely stand to work better. It's a work-in-progress. ↩
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Maybe less? There might be no real demand for this mind of thing. ↩