mdbook-footnote

A preprocessor for mdbook to support the inclusion of automatically numbered footnotes.

It turns this:

Normal text{{footnote: Or is it?}} in body.

into:

Normal text¹ in body.

with the footnotes accumulated at the bottom of the page, following an <hr/>.

Configuration

The markdown boolean flag indicates whether footnotes should be emitted as MarkDown rather than HTML. This is needed for any non-HTML backend.

Installation

To use, install the tool

cargo install mdbook-footnote

and add it as a preprocessor in book.toml:

[preprocessor.footnote]

1: Or is it?