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Woohoo! I’ve just discovered that Textile1 seamlessly supports the inline creation of footnotes2.
Back when I was a miscreant3, I posted with footnotes all the time, and I somewhat miss the practice. It doesn’t bugger up the rhythm of your sentences4, and allows you the freedom to stick ridiculously long asides5 in wherever you feel.
Hurrah6 for footnotes!
1 Textile is the text-processing language I use to write my blog entries.
2 Like this!
3 The collective noun for a poster to uk.misc
4 Like what parentheses (that’s brackets to the Brits) do
5 My original intention was to put a ridiculously long aside down here in this footnote, but I can’t be arsed to do so, due to the fact that it’s Boxing Day7 and I’ve got a stack of DVDs to watch, including The Simpsons Season 5 which features commentary on every single track, so I have 11 hours of television to watch, followed by the same 11 hours, but with a soundtrack of writers and animators cracking wise about the creation of one of the finest seasons of animated television in the world ever.
6 And, indeed, huzzah.
7 That’s December 26 to the Yanks
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