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Improvement

September 30, 2021 • 1 minute read

Footnotes now supported in Markdown fields

Footnotes let you reference relevant information without disrupting the flow of what you're trying to say: Here is a simple footnote[^1]. With some additional text after it. [^1]: My reference.…

Footnotes let you reference relevant information without disrupting the flow of what you're trying to say:

Here is a simple footnote[^1]. With some additional text after it.

[^1]: My reference.

You can now use footnote syntax in any Markdown field!

Footnotes are displayed as superscript links. Click them to jump to their referenced information, displayed in a new section at the bottom of the document:

footnote-cropped

Learn more about using footnotes in Markdown.

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New delimiter syntax for inline mathematical expressions

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