# Footnote support on community.lsst.org (this forum)

**URL:** <https://www.rubin.community/t/footnote-support-on-community-lsst-org-this-forum/6145>\
**Category:** Meta\
**Created:** [December 3, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/footnote-support-on-community-lsst-org-this-forum/6145 "2021-12-03T16:28:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![frossie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/frossie/32/9_2.png) [@frossie](https://www.rubin.community/u/frossie)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/footnote-support-on-community-lsst-org-this-forum/6145/1 "2021-12-03T16:28:22Z")

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Great news for those of us who can’t express ourselves without extensive parenthetic remarks - in the last forum upgrade we included a plugin that allows you to include footnotes on your Community posts.

The syntax is

```auto
for the footnote[^1] anchor and 

[^1]: for the target (don't forget the colon)

```

The default behaviour is to render the footnote target inline in a popup \[1\] - click on those three dots - but let us know if you want to make a case for or against the traditional behaviour of rendering at the bottom of the post. (Personally I like the old-skool option but I will admit the default behaviour results in a cleaner less intimidating presentation).

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1. Thusly

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**Author:** ![ktl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/ktl/32/1373_2.png) [@ktl](https://www.rubin.community/u/ktl)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 7:09pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/footnote-support-on-community-lsst-org-this-forum/6145/2 "2021-12-03T19:09:22Z")

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Definitely inline; posts can sometimes be very long, and scrolling back and forth is a pain. If footnotes were only citations/references \[1\], then it would be different, but for “extensive parenthetic remarks”, inline is far better.

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1. note that Wikipedia mostly uses these but also allows inline notes

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**Author:** ![ktl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/ktl/32/1373_2.png) [@ktl](https://www.rubin.community/u/ktl)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 7:10pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/footnote-support-on-community-lsst-org-this-forum/6145/3 "2021-12-03T19:10:25Z")

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Especially in the context of this topic, the rendering in the preview pane as endnotes rather than the actual result is a bit strange.

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**Author:** ![ebellm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/ebellm/32/771_2.png) [@ebellm](https://www.rubin.community/u/ebellm)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 7:13pm UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/footnote-support-on-community-lsst-org-this-forum/6145/4 "2021-12-03T19:13:31Z")

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+1 for inline.

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**Author:** ![frossie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/www.rubin.community/frossie/32/9_2.png) [@frossie](https://www.rubin.community/u/frossie)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2021, 2:32am UTC](https://www.rubin.community/t/footnote-support-on-community-lsst-org-this-forum/6145/5 "2021-12-08T02:32:15Z")

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Wow okay such unanimity! I know when I am beat - inline it is.

Edit: If you print the page the footnote gets traditionally rendered so that’s pretty neat