Footnotes and markdown

Footnotes are good!

I just learned you can add a footnote in markdown with [^fn-title-of-footnote], e.g.,:

As global librarians, we can stop treating the library as a destination and start treating it as a hub.[^fn-wilkinson]

Then, at the bottom of the page, add the name of the footnote again, followed by : and then text that you want to appear as a footnote:

[^fn-wilkinson]: [Skills That Transfer: Transliteracy and the Global Librarian (ACRL/NY 2011 Symposium)](http://www.slideshare.net/lanewilkinson)

Fancier Footnotes? Of course.

Bigfoot brings some fanciness to footnotes. To get it going, download the javascript files from the bigfoot site.

I put the bigfoot-default.css file in jekyll’s css folder. I then created a js folder and put the bigfoot.js and bigfoot.min.js files in it.

Next, I added the following to head.html:

<!-- JS -->
<!-- bigfoot footnotes from http://www.bigfootjs.com/ -->
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/dmcwo/js/bigfoot.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $.bigfoot();
</script>

and

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/dmcwo/css/bigfoot-default.css">

It works!

Now, some experimentation:

Text footnote

As global librarians, we can stop treating the library as a destination and start treating it as a hub.¹

Text footnote w/ link

As global librarians, we can stop treating the library as a destination and start treating it as a hub.²

Image footnotes w/ links?

As global librarians, we can stop treating the library as a destination³ and start treating it as a hub.⁴

Apologies in advance for the many footnotes to come….