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
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