Goal
Clean footnote support for articles where small tangents or references would otherwise interrupt the main text.
Approach
Prefer Markdown/remark-native footnotes (e.g. remark-footnotes or GFM-style [^1] syntax) if compatible with the current pipeline (remark-gfm, remark-frontmatter, rehype-slug, rehype-pretty-code).
Requirements
- accessible backlinks (footnote → reference and back)
- restrained typography — small, quiet, consistent with existing prose styles
- no tooltip/popover system
- no client-side JavaScript
- preserves normal Markdown authoring — no bespoke MDX component required to write one
Do not implement until
An actual article needs footnotes. Speculative infrastructure for a need that hasn't appeared yet.
Goal
Clean footnote support for articles where small tangents or references would otherwise interrupt the main text.
Approach
Prefer Markdown/remark-native footnotes (e.g.
remark-footnotesor GFM-style[^1]syntax) if compatible with the current pipeline (remark-gfm,remark-frontmatter,rehype-slug,rehype-pretty-code).Requirements
Do not implement until
An actual article needs footnotes. Speculative infrastructure for a need that hasn't appeared yet.