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On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 18:36:12 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
Dear gang,
I've spent a considerable amount of time over the past month trying to master the art of xhtml output. We are close to being able to use ConTeXt as a replacement for markdown in, e.g., WordPress. Indeed, I plan to present the results of this experiment (porting an entire academic article to xhtml and WP) in a future article for one of the TeX journals...
There is at least one crucial feature that's still needed. Perhaps it is already supported: If so, it would be much appreciated if someone kindly explained how to do it.
In a web post (or epub), one wants to be able to interact back and forth with notes. Here is how markdown (extra) does it:
========Input======== That's some text with a footnote.[^1]
[^1]: And that's the footnote.
That's the second paragraph of the note.
More main text ========Output======== <p>That's some text with a footnote.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p> <p>More main text</p>
<div class="footnotes"> <hr /> <ol> <li id="fn:1"> <p>And that's the footnote.</p> <p>That's the second paragraph of the note. <a href="#fnref:1" rev="footnote">↩</a></p> </li> </ol> </div> =====================
The resulting html file is attached. '↩' corresponds to U+21A9 (↩). See also
https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/#footnotes
Now we can of course already export xhtml footnotes from ConTeXt but there will be no interactive links. In the current project, there are 77 footnotes; I had to add the links manually to get the output to do what we wanted.
[Also note that it makes much more sense to export the footnotes as endnotes, particularly for long blog posts.]
Is there already a way to get done automatically?
In any case: This feature is a must-do in my humble opinion. Aside from a few other export bugs, this is one of the few features still needed so that ConTeXt can completely replace markdown for (advanced) web posts. Thanks is advance and
Best wishes Idris
-- Idris Samawi Hamid, Professor Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523