Footnotes inside Tables about hugo-book

[tajmone]

Footnotes in Tables Behaving Normally

An example of a footnote occurring in table cell but behaving like all other normal notes is note 72 in 26. THE HUGO ENGINE AND HOW IT WORKS.

Since the cell containing the note is styled as d (default), the actual note text is not inside the cell but with the rest of the other footnotes at the end of the HTML doc.

[tajmone]

Upcoming Solution in Asciidoctor

I've come across the following Issue on the Asciidoctor project:

• asciidoctor/asciidoctor#2352

When that will be implemented, the whole problem of footnotes inside table cells will be resolved — the new b style (block) for table cells will be treated as an AsciiDoc block snippet, and not as a nested AsciiDoc document like with the a (AsciiDoc) style.

[tajmone]

Related Issues

See also:

• asciidoctor/asciidoctor#2350
• asciidoctor/asciidoctor#1705

[tajmone]

Footnotes References

This web page discusses in great detail footnotes and their usage:

• https://libguides.murdoch.edu.au/footnote/text

We ought to extract some correct terminology to be able to describe their use in the Styling Conventions document (i.e. avoid ambiguity when referring to note number that appears in the text body and that which appears next to note contents).