It would be nice to have syntax for leaving footnotes at the bottom of long comments. There are other markups that allow for this, and it seems like a reasonable feature.¹ Kind of like this one, but without the hacks.
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See some discussion in T2849.
The syntax for this in markdown is [x][y], but it's a "reference-style link", not a real footnote.
The syntax for this in reStructuredText is [n]_ with ..[n] for the note body, but this seems crazy.
The syntax for this in Textile is [n] with fnn. for the note body.
I'm very hesitant to use [x] for this because it occurs frequently in discussion of source code.
We could do something like {ref 1} inline and then {ref 1} starting a block for the body, e.g.:
I saw a funny picture of a cat {ref 1}.
{ref 1} http://funny.lol/cat.jpg he is so funny he he :)Comment Actions
The Markdown syntax for actual footnotes (from Markdown extra) is:
That's some text with a footnote.[^1] [^1]: And that's the footnote.
Where the "1" can be any identifier (and is used in the auto-generated anchor links).
How's that?
The (small) advantage I see is that it's closer to the original suggestion, which is in turn closer to how it appears in plain-text emails.