It seems that multimarkdown does not use standard semantic markup for footnote references. e.g. this piece of code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Text::Markdown::Discount;
use Text::MultiMarkdown;
my $text = <<EOF;
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec hendrerit tempor tellus. Donec pretium posuere tellus. Proin quam nisl, tincidunt et, mattis eget, convallis nec, purus.[^f]
[^f]: this is a footnote
EOF
my $html = Text::MultiMarkdown::markdown($text);
print $html;
$html = Text::Markdown::Discount::markdown($text, Text::Markdown::Discount::MKD_EXTRA_FOOTNOTE());
print $html;
outputs this:
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec hendrerit tempor tellus. Donec pretium posuere tellus. Proin quam nisl, tincidunt et, mattis eget, convallis nec, purus.<a href="#fn:f" id="fnref:f" class="footnote">1</a></p>
<div class="footnotes">
<hr />
<ol>
<li id="fn:f"><p>this is a footnote<a href="#fnref:f" class="reversefootnote"> ↩</a></p></li>
</ol>
</div>
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec hendrerit tempor tellus. Donec pretium posuere tellus. Proin quam nisl, tincidunt et, mattis eget, convallis nec, purus.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>
<div class="footnotes">
<hr/>
<ol>
<li id="fn:1">
<p>this is a footnote<a href="#fnref:1" rev="footnote">↩</a></p></li>
</ol>
</div>
Notice how Discount (correctly, IMHO) outputs the footnote reference within a <sup> tag to make sure the footnote is smaller and "in exponent".
Without a <sup> tag, I have to add custom elements to my stylesheet otherwise footnotes appear
If MMD would just output a supplementary <sup> here, things would look much better without any custom style. Out of the box, the footnotes don't really look nice at all, and in fact, confuse both regular and screen readers.
It seems that multimarkdown does not use standard semantic markup for footnote references. e.g. this piece of code:
outputs this:
Notice how Discount (correctly, IMHO) outputs the footnote reference within a
<sup>tag to make sure the footnote is smaller and "in exponent".Without a
<sup>tag, I have to add custom elements to my stylesheet otherwise footnotes appearThis is without the style:
And this is with the style:
If MMD would just output a supplementary
<sup>here, things would look much better without any custom style. Out of the box, the footnotes don't really look nice at all, and in fact, confuse both regular and screen readers.