Open olearydj opened 8 months ago
I see. The Longform plugin, which serves a similar function to the Easy Bake plugin but with more features, has an open issue around renumbering conflicting footnotes.
In the meantime, I can definitely try adding this as an optional feature in settings. To be clear, you want the prefix number to be read from Obsidian properties like so?:
While you wait for the fix, you can always manually number the footnotes using the Insert/Navigate Named Footnote command. See here in the README if you need help.
Thanks very much! I've used Longform, and have it installed, but find it overly complicated for what it does / I need in Obsidian.
Yes, read from the properties. I'm using insert named now, as you suggested.
A quick +1 for this and a suggestion: rather than using a properties field, why not just automatically prefix the footnote with the current time in seconds, so you end up with something like 1721228902-1. This is what Brett Terpstra does in his Markdown tools. Not the prettiest, but definitely effective
Hello and thanks for this handy plugin!
I often use Obsidian to work in large documents that are split into "chapters," each with their own MD file. The combined document is a skeleton that embeds the chapters. When I'm ready to publish the combined document I use the easy bake plugin to create a single MD that I export as PDF, or I use the enhancing export to directly generate DOC, PDF, etc.
Footnotes with conflicting numbers present a bit of a problem in this scenario, e.g. footnote #1 in chapter 2 and footnote #1 in chapter 4. What I end up doing is prefixing the numbered notes with the chapter number, e.g.
[^2.1]
. This works, but isn't supported by your plugin.It would be nice if we could define a prefix in the metadata, e.g.
foot-pfx: 1.
that is used when generating the numbered footnotes.Thanks for your consideration and for sharing this plugin.