It is with great excitement[1] that I am pleased to announce that the main LessWrong text editor[2] now has support for footnotes![3] A huge thanks to our friends over at the Effective Altruism Forum who coded this one up.
You can insert footnotes via:
1. Manually selecting text in the text box and selecting insert footnote from the footnotes menu icon.
The footnote icon is the [*] on the right.
2. Using Markdown syntax
Type [^n] where is the number of the footnote you wish to insert.
To insert a new footnote, use n that is <number of existing footnotes + 1>; to reuse an existing footnote, set n to be whichever footnote you are reusing.
Footnotes will automatically renumber as you add and delete them!
What’s more, footnotes will render with hover-over previews once published:
[New Feature] Support for Footnotes!
It is with great excitement[1] that I am pleased to announce that the main LessWrong text editor[2] now has support for footnotes![3] A huge thanks to our friends over at the Effective Altruism Forum who coded this one up.
You can insert footnotes via:
1. Manually selecting text in the text box and selecting insert footnote from the footnotes menu icon.
2. Using Markdown syntax
Type [^n] where is the number of the footnote you wish to insert.
To insert a new footnote, use n that is <number of existing footnotes + 1>; to reuse an existing footnote, set n to be whichever footnote you are reusing.
Footnotes will automatically renumber as you add and delete them!
What’s more, footnotes will render with hover-over previews once published:
That’s it. Go forth and create scholarly works!
I mean it, really. I’ve looked forward to us adding this support for years.
That is, the LW Docs editor, as distinct from the Markdown editor and legacy Draft-JS editor.[4]
The Markdown editor already had support for footnotes using Markdown footnote syntax.
Yes, footnotes can have footnotes. And those footnotes can reference themselves.[4]