Named and repeated footnotes

Named instead of numbered

First reference[^measurement] and second reference[^source].
 
[^measurement]: Names are easier to read in the source than numbers.
[^source]: And they do not slip when a footnote is inserted in between.

First reference¹ and second reference².

On the site numbers still appear — the name only exists in the source.

Footnotes over several lines

Continuation lines are indented:

[^long]: The first line.
 
    A second paragraph, indented by four spaces.

Inline footnotes

Obsidian knows a short form without a separate definition:

A sentence with an inline footnote.^[The text stands right here.]

A sentence with an inline footnote.^[The text stands right here.]

It does not work here

The line above is the proof: on the built page ^[The text stands right here.] shows as raw text, caret and brackets included. The inline form is an Obsidian extension, and none of this template’s Markdown plugins knows it. In Obsidian you see a proper footnote, on the site you do not — the nastiest case, because nothing about it shows while writing.

The long form with [^name] is therefore the only one that holds.

The same footnote twice

First reference[^same] and later another one[^same].
 
[^same]: Both references point to this one footnote.

First reference³ and later another one³.

Footnotes

1. Names are easier to read in the source than numbers. ↩

2. And they do not slip when a footnote is inserted in between. ↩

3. Both references point to this one footnote. ↩ ↩²