Pattern comments on [New Feature] Support for Footnotes!

[Pattern]

Is this for posts, comments or both? ^1

1. ^ Testing in markdown editor. ^2

2. ^ Didn’t seem to work. Switched to Draft-JS. ^3

3. Nor in LessWrong Docs [Beta].

[Said Achmiz]

Works perfectly in Markdown, actually.^[1]

You just have to put square brackets around your citations and your footnote definition numbers:

This would be a footnote reference.[^2]

[^2]: And here we would define the footnote.

(In fact, it’s worked in Markdown for a while before now…)

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   See?

[Pattern]

This would be a footnote [1] reference.

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1. footnote. ↩︎

2. It still works after switching to a different editor.

3. Both of them.
   

[Said Achmiz]

What about nested footnotes in Markdown?^[1]

Yep, they work.

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   Like…^[2]

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   … this!

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   And even self-referential ones?^[3]

[Pattern]

Thanks.