A tip for writing EA forum posts with footnotes
First press on your nickname in the top right corner, go to Edit Settings and make sure that a checkbox Activate Markdown Editor is checked. Then write a post in Google docs and then use Google Docs to Markdown add-on to convert it to markdown. If you then paste the resulting markdown into the EA forum editor and save it, you will see your text with footnotes. It might also have some unnecessary text that you should delete.
Tables and images
If you have images in your posts, you have to upload them somewhere on the internet (e.g. https://imgur.com/) and write a code like  in your markdown. Of course, the image address should be changed to your image. Currently, the only way to add tables is to make a screenshot of a table and add an image of it.
As I understand it, there will be a new EA forum editor some time soon and all this will not be needed anymore but for now this is how I make my EA forum posts.
If you have images in your posts, you have to upload them somewhere on the internet (e.g. https://imgur.com/)
If you’ve put the images in a google doc, and made the doc public, then you’ve already uploaded the images to the internet, and can link to them there. If you use the WYSIWYG editor, you can even copypaste the images along with the text.
I’m not sure whether I should expect google or imgur to preserve their image-links for longer.
A tip for writing EA forum posts with footnotes First press on your nickname in the top right corner, go to Edit Settings and make sure that a checkbox Activate Markdown Editor is checked. Then write a post in Google docs and then use Google Docs to Markdown add-on to convert it to markdown. If you then paste the resulting markdown into the EA forum editor and save it, you will see your text with footnotes. It might also have some unnecessary text that you should delete.
Tables and images If you have images in your posts, you have to upload them somewhere on the internet (e.g. https://imgur.com/) and write a code like
in your markdown. Of course, the image address should be changed to your image. Currently, the only way to add tables is to make a screenshot of a table and add an image of it.As I understand it, there will be a new EA forum editor some time soon and all this will not be needed anymore but for now this is how I make my EA forum posts.
If you’ve put the images in a google doc, and made the doc public, then you’ve already uploaded the images to the internet, and can link to them there. If you use the WYSIWYG editor, you can even copypaste the images along with the text.
I’m not sure whether I should expect google or imgur to preserve their image-links for longer.
Thanks for the gdocs to markdown tip. I didn’t know I could do that, but it’ll make writing posts for LW and EAF more convenient!
What’s the syntax for footnotes?
This displays as:
Main text[1]
footnote
Thanks!
You can also write “in-line” footnotes: See this guide to footnote syntax.