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88 Post author: lukeprog 12 September 2011 08:48PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 13 September 2011 09:03:46PM 0 points [-]

That would be useful. I guess the way I've seen this done sometimes is to use symbols like * † ‡ for content footnotes and numbers for citation endnotes? But that usually works on paper, where pages are short and you can see the content of the footnote at a glance. I'm not sure I've seen a solution for this that works on the web. It'd be nice to have an integrated Less Wrong footnote system so that we could test different ways of displaying the content. Maybe a hover-over-the-footnote-to-read-its-contents feature?

Comment author: torekp 19 September 2011 01:18:33AM *  0 points [-]

You could write footnote 1, where the number 1 is a link pointing only to this comment. Hovering over the 1 shows some text. I couldn't seem to cancel the link formatting, so that might not be too useful unless you can somehow arrange that the footnotes are the first comment in your own thread.

I played in the sandbox and noticed that some things work differently there than here.