huw comments on Sarah Cheng’s Quick takes

[huw]

Markdown footnotes work, they’re just different to the first-class ones. This post was fully Markdown (and I couldn’t have done it without it!)

[Ben Millwood🔸]

oh! uhh, how?

[huw]

Just the normal markdown syntax:

Here's a simple footnote[^1].

[^1]: This is the first footnote.

Here’s a simple footnote^[1].

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1. ↩︎

   This is the first footnote.

[Ben Millwood🔸]

Thanks! (I slightly object to “the normal markdown syntax”, since based on my quick reading neither John Gruber’s original markdown spec nor the latest CommonMark spec nor GitHub Flavoured Markdown have footnotes)