Footnote formatting

[andrewheiss]

Both Gruber's implementation of footnotes and MultiMarkdown/Markdown Extra put the Unicode return character on the same line as the footnote:

* footnotes [^foot]

[^foot]: I really was missing those.

would create:

<ol>
    <li>
        <p>I really was missing those. <a href="footnote stuff">↩</a></p>
    </li>
</ol>

Maruku puts the return character outside of the <p>, thus pushing it on a different line:

<ol>
    <li>
        <p>I really was missing those.</p><a href="footnote stuff">↩</a>
    </li>
</ol>

I forked Maruku to attempt to fix it, but it seems to automatically put <p> tags on the footnotes before REXML can take over in render_footnotes() in lib/output/to_html.rb, and it seems impossible to insert the return <a> inside the footnote <p>.

Is there any way to make the footnote return link appear within the footnote paragraph element itself á la Gruber?

[bentomas]

I fixed this in a local fork of Maruku. I changed the render_footnotes in lib/maruku/output/to_html.rb to look like this: http://gist.github.com/500015

Basically what my change does is find the last HTML node in the footnote, and then if it is a <p> render the footnote inside of it. Otherwise (like if it was a blockquote or a list or something) I render it exactly like Maruku does it.

I hope that's helpful!

[andrewheiss]

Brilliant! That did it! Thanks!

See http://github.com/andrewheiss/maruku/commit/8902c316d451f4c90284a1fa6e08b57166123b58

[etc]

This glitch still arises in Nesta, which depends on Maruku 0.6.0. Any idea whether this is a Nesta problem or a Maruku problem?

[etc]

Sorry, I'm new at all this—just realised that this change was made in your fork of Maruku, and not in the main Maruku repo.