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#1 2008-07-07 14:26:00

vid

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Registered: 2008-07-07

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[textile] Multiple footnotes at same place

I want to have multiple footnotes after some claim, like this:

Many people argue it is true[11][12][13]
...
fn11. Johny, How I discovered this is true
fn12. Billy, I feel it is true
fn13. W, God told Me it is true]

But here, footnotes in text display without any break:

Many people argue it is true¹¹¹²¹³

If I place space between footnotes, it doesn’t display correctly:

Many people argue it is true¹¹ [12] [13]

I think textpattern could automatically insert space or comma between consectutive footnotes, so that true¹¹¹²¹³ would appear as three separate footnotes

#2 2008-07-07 15:14:08

Gocom

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Re: [textile] Multiple footnotes at same place

Doesn’t this belong to the Textile area, ‘cause we are speaking about the Textile Markup, not actually “Textpattern”.

But to fix this, you can allways style things. In example:

sup.footnote {
	margin: 0 2px;
}

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Rah | GitHub

#3 2008-07-07 15:44:38

ruud

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Re: [textile] Multiple footnotes at same place

The alternative would be a patch such as this one:

--- classTextile.php	(revision 2917)
+++ classTextile.php	(working copy)
@@ -998,17 +998,24 @@
 // -------------------------------------------------------------
 	function footnoteRef($text)
 	{
-		return preg_replace('/(?<=\S)\[([0-9]+)\](\s)?/Ue',
-			'$this->footnoteID(\'\1\',\'\2\')', $text);
+		return preg_replace('/(?<=\S)((?:\[[0-9]+\])+)(\s)?/e',
+			'$this->footnoteID(\'\1\')', $text);
 	}

 // -------------------------------------------------------------
-	function footnoteID($id, $t)
+	function footnoteID($id)
 	{
-		if (empty($this->fn[$id]))
-			$this->fn[$id] = uniqid(rand());
-		$fnid = $this->fn[$id];
-		return '<sup class="footnote"><a href="#fn'.$fnid.'">'.$id.'</a></sup>'.$t;
+		$ids = explode('][', trim($id, ']['));
+		$out = '';
+
+		foreach ($ids as $id)
+		{
+			if (empty($this->fn[$id]))
+				$this->fn[$id] = uniqid(rand());
+			$fnid = $this->fn[$id];
+			$out[] = '<sup class="footnote"><a href="#fn'.$fnid.'">'.$id.'</a></sup>';
+		}
+		return join(' ', $out);
 	}

 // -------------------------------------------------------------

I prefer the CSS solution. Wish I’d thought of that before creating the patch ;)

#4 2008-07-07 17:17:10

vid

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Registered: 2008-07-07

Posts: 5

Re: [textile] Multiple footnotes at same place

Thanks, the CSS solution is very elegant. I think it could help other people with same problem in future, if it was included in default installation.