I discovered it this week and I love it! Not sure how new the feature is.

It’s easy. Just put the citation inside square brackets, and then preface all that with a caret. Like this: Beanis cures cancer.^[I made it up.] It automatically takes care of the numbering and shit.

Example:

Beanis cures cancer,[1] and aliens will arrive next year.[2] More and more people are saying these things![3]


  1. I made it up. ↩︎

  2. It was revealed to me in a dream. ↩︎

  3. https://hexbear.net/PPB ↩︎

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Cool

I might use this next time I do a snarky effort reply to a lib. Does it work anywhere else? Has reddit implemented it? I like to copy paste my effort replies often.

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It seems to be implemented slightly differently elsewhere, which would complicate your copy-paste efforts.

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ahh well i have to do the same with other links too pretty often so

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Leftist posting can get even more leftistier![1]


  1. wordier ↩︎

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Markdown + Latex will change the world

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I have not seen this one before. That’s pretty cool. I wonder how many different markdown engines that works in.

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Most of the Markdown documentation I’ve found says to put the caret after the opening square bracket, but Lemmy’s is different.

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That is[1]

Wish you could collapse the footnotes like this though

Would be cooler[2]


  1. pretty cool ↩︎

  2. ↩︎

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