Footnotes¶

Footnotes work as in Obsidian: a reference [^1] with a definition [^1]: text anywhere in the note, or an inline note ^[text]. Each note is shown at the bottom of the page where it is referenced. The numbers run through the whole document.

Pandoc reads footnotes with a label[^label] or a number[^1].
Inline footnotes work too.^[This one is written in the text.]

[^label]: A footnote with a named label.
[^1]: A footnote with a number.

The dashed line in the picture marks where empty page space was cut out.

• The labels of each note (and of each embedded note) are kept apart, so [^1] on one page never shows the text of [^1] on another page.
• When two references use the same label, each gets its own copy of the note, with its own number.
• A note that holds a list, a table or another block besides paragraphs cannot be placed at the bottom of the page. It stays in the list of notes at the end of the document, with its number.

The notes use CSS paged media footnotes (float: footnote). To style them, see the CSS reference.