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I know this is not the longest footnote ever by far, but a solid three pages is not bad for the casual footnote, just to give some context.
From "History of the Langobards" by Paul the Deacon, translated by William Dudley Foulke, 1907.
#footnotes #curiosities #history #PaulTheDeacon #HistoryOfTheLangobards #CanWeAlsoMakeThreePageLongHashtagsOrWouldThatBeTooMuchForMostModernSoftwareButEvenIfItIsntLinebreaksWillProbablyBeAProblemWhichDoesntMeanWeShouldntTryBecauseAsYodaFamouslySaidThereIsNoTry
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I know this is not the longest footnote ever by far, but a solid three pages is not bad for the casual footnote, just to give some context.
From "History of the Langobards" by Paul the Deacon, translated by William Dudley Foulke, 1907.
#footnotes #curiosities #history #PaulTheDeacon #HistoryOfTheLangobards #CanWeAlsoMakeThreePageLongHashtagsOrWouldThatBeTooMuchForMostModernSoftwareButEvenIfItIsntLinebreaksWillProbablyBeAProblemWhichDoesntMeanWeShouldntTryBecauseAsYodaFamouslySaidThereIsNoTry
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I know this is not the longest footnote ever by far, but a solid three pages is not bad for the casual footnote, just to give some context.
From "History of the Langobards" by Paul the Deacon, translated by William Dudley Foulke, 1907.
#footnotes #curiosities #history #PaulTheDeacon #HistoryOfTheLangobards #CanWeAlsoMakeThreePageLongHashtagsOrWouldThatBeTooMuchForMostModernSoftwareButEvenIfItIsntLinebreaksWillProbablyBeAProblemWhichDoesntMeanWeShouldntTryBecauseAsYodaFamouslySaidThereIsNoTry
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I know this is not the longest footnote ever by far, but a solid three pages is not bad for the casual footnote, just to give some context.
From "History of the Langobards" by Paul the Deacon, translated by William Dudley Foulke, 1907.
#footnotes #curiosities #history #PaulTheDeacon #HistoryOfTheLangobards #CanWeAlsoMakeThreePageLongHashtagsOrWouldThatBeTooMuchForMostModernSoftwareButEvenIfItIsntLinebreaksWillProbablyBeAProblemWhichDoesntMeanWeShouldntTryBecauseAsYodaFamouslySaidThereIsNoTry
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I know this is not the longest footnote ever by far, but a solid three pages is not bad for the casual footnote, just to give some context.
From "History of the Langobards" by Paul the Deacon, translated by William Dudley Foulke, 1907.
#footnotes #curiosities #history #PaulTheDeacon #HistoryOfTheLangobards #CanWeAlsoMakeThreePageLongHashtagsOrWouldThatBeTooMuchForMostModernSoftwareButEvenIfItIsntLinebreaksWillProbablyBeAProblemWhichDoesntMeanWeShouldntTryBecauseAsYodaFamouslySaidThereIsNoTry
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Highlighting Footnotes, by @kittygiraudel.com:
https://kittygiraudel.com/2026/03/18/highlighting-footnotes/
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OpenAI launches ‘deep research’ tool that it says can match research analyst - why not have a few of these running all the time - the real time constant data feeds really get left out of the ai equation but i think it will start to catch up more for smb #free for commercial use #scan your data and use that as a framework for much more data #apa #citations #footnotes #McGyver ai #scapy
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Some academic nonfiction books can benefit from footnotes, citations, and references.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/09/on-footnotes/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
That's where I am on my current project. It's not as tedious as indexing, yesterday's topic, but neither is it exciting – just a necessary accessory.
In this brief post, I share my workflow. In fact, this infographic does a lot of the heavy lifting.
#books #writing #philosophy #footnotes #details #nonfiction #citations #breadcrumbs #performance #signalling #humility #blog #podcast
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"During a brief course in the history and philosophy of science, being unfamiliar with both the style of #footnotes and many of the authors, I took the short cut of adding #references to my essay based on how they appeared in the footnotes of the books I was reading. I saw lots of references to ‘Ibid’ (who I assumed was one of the plethora of ancient Greek philosophers) and duly cited them as “Ibid, p. 365”."
🫣🙄🤣
#citations #research #ibidem #Latin
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»#TikTok is adding #Footnotes, its take on #CommunityNotes: But the company isn’t walking away from #factchecking.« https://www.engadget.com/social-media/tiktok-is-adding-footnotes-its-take-on-community-notes-140040044.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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I'm still not out of the rabbit hole of searching for an #OpenSource #PersonalKnowledgeManagement software. 🐰
I'm gonna give a second try to @zettlr tomorrow! Their docs are *surprisingly* user-friendly and they claim to stick to the pure #CommonMark where probable. It's all the while being nice to researchers with citing, inline usage of #TeXLaTeX, #MermaidJS, and pop-over #footnotes. Provision of the simple #PDF export and #Pandoc customization are welcome, too!
But, to be fair, I may be overexaggerating how good #Zettlr is because of my recent disgust with #VendorLocking. In fact, almost anything that closely follows the common spec and is #FreeSoftware might suffice already. Having something as advanced and closer to the roots is certainly refreshing!
#Markdown #zettelkasten #authoring #Zettlr #ReferenceManager #ReferenceManagers #PKM #NoteTaking #NoteTakingApp #NoteTakingApps #KaTeX #frontmatter #Obsidian #Logseq #Anytype #Notion #VendorLock #VendorLockIn #FOSS #FLOSS
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✨🎉 Breaking News: A nearly 30-year-old software guide has been updated with 475 #footnotes, because who doesn't love reading a novel's worth of annotations on obsolete technology? 📚🔍 Now you can finally revel in the subtle differences between user interfaces from the era of dial-up and the futuristic landscape of 2025. 😂🚀
https://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2025-march-mastering-delphi5-annotated-complete.html #breakingnews #softwareupdate #techhistory #nostalgia #userinterfaces #HackerNews #ngated -
David Foster Wallace: the literary genius who makes math errors an art form! 🤓✍️ Apparently, in "Infinite Jest," math mistakes are as intentional and meaningful as the #footnotes. Let's just say he needed a calculator more than a dictionary. 🤷♂️📚
https://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/dubious-math-in-infinite-jest.html #DavidFosterWallace #InfiniteJest #LiteraryGenius #MathErrors #ArtOfMistakes #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Breaking News: Tom Scott, the #YouTube messiah none of us remembered missing, makes an earth-shattering return! Apparently, he took two years off to read every footnote of YouTube's terms and conditions. 📜🤓
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz3lSKgz4q8 #TomScott #Return #BreakingNews #InternetCulture #Footnotes #HackerNews #ngated -
Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.
In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes
#AcademicWriting #Scholarship #Footnotes #OpenScience #Epistemology #Publishing #AcademicLife #WritingThoughts #ScienceCommunication #ResearchWriting #AcademicTwitter #MastodonAcademia
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📚 🤔 Look, a "scholar" trying to decipher a #Swiss #hotel manager's #sci-fi fantasies from the 60s! Spoiler alert: it's still #nonsense, just with fancier #footnotes. 🏨🛸
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/scholars-will-call-it-nonsense/ #manager #scholarly #analysis #1960s #HackerNews #ngated -
What the footnotes reveal that the January 6th Committee could not: a treasure trove of evidence in black and white. Brilliant reporting by Benjamin Wittes (gift article, no paywall): https://wapo.st/3Y4gPeL #Footnotes #TreasureTrove #Jan6 #Jan6th #Jan6thCommittee #Jan6Report #USPol #DOJ #DomesticTerrorism #Extremism #BigLie #Insurrection #SeditiousConspiracy
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#WritersCoffeeClub Dec. 12: Who is a writer whose life inspires you?
Probably #TerryPratchett , for how many awesome and hilarious books he wrote, and how he managed to transit from a full-time journalist to a full-time writer.
Also, his use of #footnotes . I love footnotes, and have hundreds of them in my books. Does anyone know why he stopped using them in his later books?
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CVE Alert: CVE-2025-11733 - lumiblog - Footnotes Made Easy - https://www.redpacketsecurity.com/cve-alert-cve-2025-11733-lumiblog-footnotes-made-easy/
#OSINT #ThreatIntel #CyberSecurity #cve-2025-11733 #lumiblog #footnotes-made-easy
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@pooserville that reminds me of this:
"In 1839 the third volume of the parochial history appeared, containing an account of the Roman wall; in it Hodgson first clearly established the claim of Emperor Hadrian to be considered as its builder; notably, as the claim isn't a claim on Northumbrian history, it is formatted as a 166-page footnote in the book, taking up about half the book's length. "
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📖 **Why footnotes matter**
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#Design #Approaches
Give footnotes the boot · Smarter alternatives to footnotes on the web https://ilo.im/1652si_____
#Footnotes #Content #Accessibility #DesignPatterns #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend -
TikTok introduce "Footnotes" 📝, la sua versione delle note della community per aggiungere contesto ai video. Un approccio collaborativo alla moderazione dei contenuti sulla piattaforma. Da oggi gli utenti USA 🇺🇸 possono candidarsi come contributori se rispettano i requisiti. #TikTok #Footnotes #Moderazione
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The call for Web Residencies »Tools for Citation« from Akademie Schloss Solitude looks amazing:
"The residency encourages artists to delve into associative trails, transdisciplinary thinking, and collaborative processes in and between analogue and digital networks and worlds to explore the practices of citation."
Apply by 15 Dec 2024
/via @proff
#WebDesign #InterfaceDesign #Art #Design #Typography #Footnotes #Citations
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#Development #Releases
Add content to print margins · The Chrome browser brings new CSS printing features https://ilo.im/160mvv_____
#Printing #Webpages #Content #FootNotes #CrossReferences #Chrome #Browser #WebDev #Frontend #CSS -
🆕 blog! “How to make Markdown Footnotes start at Zero in WordPress”
As a dedicated and professional computer scientician0, I believe that all indices must start at zero. Not one, not two, but zero1. The zeroth2 element is sacrosanct to our creed; for in the beginning there was nothing. If you're using WordPress's JetPack, it uses an ancien…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/
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How to make Markdown Footnotes start at Zero in WordPress
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/As a dedicated and professional computer scientician0, I believe that all indices must start at zero. Not one, not two, but zero1.
The zeroth2 element is sacrosanct to our creed; for in the beginning there was nothing.
If you're using WordPress's JetPack, it uses an ancient version of Markdown Extra. You can either monkeypatch this, or install a separate Markdown plugin.
I've patched my fork of it in two specific places.
Firstly, I set
$this->footnote_counter = 0;in the initial config of the footnotes.Secondly, I changed the display so that the ordered list began from zero:
<ol start="0">Wait… should that be zerothly and firstly?
There's no way to change footnote links to symbols like * or ♪. Perhaps I'll add that next3😉?
Anyway, I enjoy hacking around on my theme.
I've even got certificates in it! ↩︎
Or is it "noughtst"? ↩︎
OK, maybe there is a way. But it isn't particularly easy or automated. ↩︎
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/how-to-make-markdown-footnotes-start-at-zero-in-wordpress/
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So I thought I got info straight from a website but actually after spending 45 minutes on the wayback machine, it turns out that I apparently took what they actually said and then abstracted it to make a visual.
So, past me was quite smart (and my visual is quite cool) but past me didn’t quite get the credit right. Document document document, and claim credit for your own work!
#AmWriting #FactCheckYourself
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"Hatchjaw remarks (unconfirmed, however, by Bassett) that throughout the whole ten years that went to the writing of The Country Album de Selby was obsessed with mirrors and had recourse to them so frequently that he claimed to have two left hands and to be living in a world arbitrarily bounded by a wooden frame."
Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
#FlannOBrien #Mirrors #deSelby #Footnotes #books #literature
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@marlowe @DrALJONES There was a time, when #typesetting was first done on computers, when #footnotes were difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. So publishers preferred #endnotes because they were cheaper. This ceased to be true about 2002, when InDesign 2.0 (and soon after Quark XPress) became able to handle footnotes as easily as Word had been doing all along. So now there’s no excuse for endnotes except “We've always done it that way.” Always!
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@marlowe @DrALJONES There was a time, when #typesetting was first done on computers, when #footnotes were difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. So publishers preferred #endnotes because they were cheaper. This ceased to be true about 2002, when InDesign 2.0 (and soon after Quark XPress) became able to handle footnotes as easily as Word had been doing all along. So now there’s no excuse for endnotes except “We've always done it that way.” Always!
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@marlowe @DrALJONES There was a time, when #typesetting was first done on computers, when #footnotes were difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. So publishers preferred #endnotes because they were cheaper. This ceased to be true about 2002, when InDesign 2.0 (and soon after Quark XPress) became able to handle footnotes as easily as Word had been doing all along. So now there’s no excuse for endnotes except “We've always done it that way.” Always!
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@marlowe @DrALJONES There was a time, when #typesetting was first done on computers, when #footnotes were difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. So publishers preferred #endnotes because they were cheaper. This ceased to be true about 2002, when InDesign 2.0 (and soon after Quark XPress) became able to handle footnotes as easily as Word had been doing all along. So now there’s no excuse for endnotes except “We've always done it that way.” Always!
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Fidus Writer 3.11.11 is not a major release, but it brings one of the most requested features is finally here: the ability to export comments (and their responses) to DOCX and ODT files! 🎉
Comments are exported directly to ODT files, and also in most cases also to DOCX files. However, the DOCX format doesn't allow comments on text inside of footnotes. So those comments have been moved to the footnote reference. 👀
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here's the script i use to turn my footnotes and references in #Ghost from the shorthand i use while writing into the proper markup for publishing. may not work for you, since i use a very specific format, but could be a good starting point!
https://github.com/molly/citation-needed-scripts/tree/main/notes
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p.s. for design nerds out there: if you look at this on a wide-ish device (not a phone) you should see my alpha version of the new #sidenotes!
still working out a few tweaks and making some decisions, like whether the references should show by default or just the notes
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*Shrieking joyfully into the void*
#RobinMcKinley has resumed #blogging
With #footnotes even!
https://robinmckinleysblog.com/blog -
Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.
In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes
#AcademicWriting #Scholarship #Footnotes #OpenScience #Epistemology #Publishing #AcademicLife #WritingThoughts #ScienceCommunication #ResearchWriting #AcademicTwitter #MastodonAcademia
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Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.
In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes
#AcademicWriting #Scholarship #Footnotes #OpenScience #Epistemology #Publishing #AcademicLife #WritingThoughts #ScienceCommunication #ResearchWriting #AcademicTwitter #MastodonAcademia
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Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.
In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes
#AcademicWriting #Scholarship #Footnotes #OpenScience #Epistemology #Publishing #AcademicLife #WritingThoughts #ScienceCommunication #ResearchWriting #AcademicTwitter #MastodonAcademia
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📚 🤔 Look, a "scholar" trying to decipher a #Swiss #hotel manager's #sci-fi fantasies from the 60s! Spoiler alert: it's still #nonsense, just with fancier #footnotes. 🏨🛸
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/scholars-will-call-it-nonsense/ #manager #scholarly #analysis #1960s #HackerNews #ngated -
📚 🤔 Look, a "scholar" trying to decipher a #Swiss #hotel manager's #sci-fi fantasies from the 60s! Spoiler alert: it's still #nonsense, just with fancier #footnotes. 🏨🛸
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/scholars-will-call-it-nonsense/ #manager #scholarly #analysis #1960s #HackerNews #ngated -
📚 🤔 Look, a "scholar" trying to decipher a #Swiss #hotel manager's #sci-fi fantasies from the 60s! Spoiler alert: it's still #nonsense, just with fancier #footnotes. 🏨🛸
https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/scholars-will-call-it-nonsense/ #manager #scholarly #analysis #1960s #HackerNews #ngated -
"Hatchjaw remarks (unconfirmed, however, by Bassett) that throughout the whole ten years that went to the writing of The Country Album de Selby was obsessed with mirrors and had recourse to them so frequently that he claimed to have two left hands and to be living in a world arbitrarily bounded by a wooden frame."
Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
#FlannOBrien #Mirrors #deSelby #Footnotes #books #literature
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"Hatchjaw remarks (unconfirmed, however, by Bassett) that throughout the whole ten years that went to the writing of The Country Album de Selby was obsessed with mirrors and had recourse to them so frequently that he claimed to have two left hands and to be living in a world arbitrarily bounded by a wooden frame."
Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
#FlannOBrien #Mirrors #deSelby #Footnotes #books #literature
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"Hatchjaw remarks (unconfirmed, however, by Bassett) that throughout the whole ten years that went to the writing of The Country Album de Selby was obsessed with mirrors and had recourse to them so frequently that he claimed to have two left hands and to be living in a world arbitrarily bounded by a wooden frame."
Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
#FlannOBrien #Mirrors #deSelby #Footnotes #books #literature
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Anyone here know if there's a way to make #AsciiDoctor support #Kramdown #Markdown style footnotes[^¹], as I'm not that fond of in-line footnotes?
I mean, the whole thing about *foot*notes to me is that their content is at the bottom, so they don't distract from the text I'm currently reading.
Sure, this is the case in the output with #AsciiDoc's inline #footnotes, but not in its source.(pinging @ljwrites)
[^¹]: see https://kramdown.gettalong.org/quickref.html#footnotes for an example
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Anyone here know if there's a way to make #AsciiDoctor support #Kramdown #Markdown style footnotes[^¹], as I'm not that fond of in-line footnotes?
I mean, the whole thing about *foot*notes to me is that their content is at the bottom, so they don't distract from the text I'm currently reading.
Sure, this is the case in the output with #AsciiDoc's inline #footnotes, but not in its source.(pinging @ljwrites)
[^¹]: see https://kramdown.gettalong.org/quickref.html#footnotes for an example
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Fidus Writer 3.11.11 is not a major release, but it brings one of the most requested features is finally here: the ability to export comments (and their responses) to DOCX and ODT files! 🎉
Comments are exported directly to ODT files, and also in most cases also to DOCX files. However, the DOCX format doesn't allow comments on text inside of footnotes. So those comments have been moved to the footnote reference. 👀
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Fidus Writer 3.11.11 is not a major release, but it brings one of the most requested features is finally here: the ability to export comments (and their responses) to DOCX and ODT files! 🎉
Comments are exported directly to ODT files, and also in most cases also to DOCX files. However, the DOCX format doesn't allow comments on text inside of footnotes. So those comments have been moved to the footnote reference. 👀