In writing my post A Calvinist's thoughts on Emeth, I felt like I needed to be able to refer to materials without quoting them in the body. That’s why footnotes were invented, and there’s a plugin for the forum software that allows for footnotes, so I installed it. Here’s how you can use them yourself–I’ll first show what you’d type, and then how it would appear in your post:
This is some text with a numbered footnote[^1].
[^1]: This is the source for that text.
You can also use names for your footnotes, rather than numbers[^name].
[^name]: See https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-footnote/84533
You can also include the text of the footnote ^[Like this]
…and here’s how that would look in your post:
This is some text with a numbered footnote[1].
You can also use names for your footnotes, rather than numbers[2].
You can also include the text of the footnote [3]