Footnotes: Numbers instead of Symbols?

[lucyabb]

I am wondering if it is possible to use numbers rather than symbols in regard to footnotes?

On pages where there is only one footnote a symbol looks fine I think. But I think it looks poor on pages with lots of footnotes (e.g. https://guardingtheguards.com/in-the-office-of-constable/)

Many thanks

[dsifford]

Thanks for reaching out.

This has been on my radar for a while, but I haven't yet had the time to invest into figuring out how to approach this.

What makes this challenging is that footnotes and citations are managed separately, so if citations use numbers to represent references and so do footnotes, there will be duplicates in the numbering scheme.

So, in short, implementing this would require a bit of thought.

[ellegaarddk]

It doesn't have to be that complicated.

You can either make it automatically figure out if numbers is already used in citations - or you can let the users themselves make that decision.

If I have numbers in both footnotes and citations, that's a mess. But then I can either choose another standard - or symbols in footnotes. My decision.

I would be perfectly happy with just a way to choose either for footnotes. Just like I choose a standard for citations.

[MagnusBrzenk]

I just installed ABT for the sole purpose of putting footnotes into my paragraphs. I am not interested in citations, and would have much preferred to have numbers than symbols. (Also, I'd have wanted the user to be able to see the footnote preferably by a popup and/or by auto-scroll to the footnote.) Thanks.

[GameDevIvan]

Easily fixed by https://github.com/dsifford/academic-bloggers-toolkit/issues/610