ctrl-shift-f
/ cmd-shift-f
inserts a Pandoc-style "[^1]
" footnote at cursor position, then adds a new line at the end of the file with the same reference, ready for pasting of the link (or any other footnote text)
After inserting the footnote, ctrl-shift-b
/ cmd-shift-b
places the cursor back in the body of the text, just after the initial reference. In other words, its a shortcut back to the place in the text body where you inserted the footnote, to save you the trouble of scrolling up for it from the end of a long document.
To remove the hassle of having to track footnote numbering across the file or between collaborators, each footnote uses a "unique" 4-character alphanumeric reference, i.e. [^79d6]
. When rendered by Pandoc, these will become sequentially numbered as normal.
The "unique" references are generated from an MD5 hash of two random numbers. 4 characters could, in theory, lead to collisions but this is highly unlikely in normal use.
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