Asciidoctor :: Discussion - Re: footnotes with paragraph breaks

Re: footnotes with paragraph breaks

Posted by mojavelinux on Dec 27, 2015; 12:52am
URL: https://discuss.asciidoctor.org/footnotes-with-paragraph-breaks-tp4130p4131.html

Multiple paragraphs in a footnote is not a supported use case (primarily because it's an improper use case for a footnote according to style manuals).

It is, however, possible to insert a manual break between lines in a footnote to create the appearance of multiple paragraphs. Here's an example:

This is subject text.footnote:[This is the first paragraph about this text.

pass:p[ +]

This is the second paragraph about this text.]

Without the pass lines, Asciidoctor sees the lines above and below as separate paragraphs, the first with an unterminated footnote macro. A blank line is a definitive break between paragraphs. Thus, a footnote must be contiguous lines.

-Dan

On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 6:46 AM, dan34 [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Is there a way to have a paragraph break inside a footnote? I can't get this to work. It doesn't include the second paragraph. Shouldn't everything within the square brackets be treated as the footnote text?

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