Footnotes and Smartypants in Kirby-Editor

Kirby 3 Questions 🤔
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Hi, I am using the new Kirby Editor for the first time, which is great! But I wondered if there is any way to insert footnotes in the blocks by either using the standard ‘Markdown Extra’ for footnotes, or by building a custom button (such as the ‘link’ or ‘italic’ buttons) to create a superscript style, or by using any other plugin/idea you might have to suggest?

Another thing I couldn’t get to work yet in the editor is smartypants(). Is that even possible?

Would appreciate any help. Thanks!

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There is a feature request here: https://github.com/getkirby/editor/issues/138

But regarding SmartyPants, have you tried with the smartypants() helper?

I think for footnotes, a button (with a dialog like for links) would probably be the best option, but I have no idea if it is possible to easily add new buttons or if so, how.

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Thank you so much for your help @texnixe!
I was unsure at first what is the “smartypants() helper”, but with a bit of browsing I got here.

The method of using:
<?= smartypants($page->text()->blocks()) ?>

rather then:
<?= $page->text()->blocks()->smartypants() ?>

seems to work perfect! Thanks!

As for inserting footnotes, I really think a button with a popup dialog box (similar to the links button), would be the perfect solution. So far unfortunately I haven’t had any luck with finding out how to build customizable buttons into the editor.

4

Unfortunately, using ‘markdown extra’ enabled in the config.php also doesn’t work in the editor with footnotes like in kirbytext().

I’ve tried this:
A footnote reference[^1]
[^1]: Footnote content.

Is there another method I’m maybe missing?

5

I don’t know, I made a little test but to no avail.

6

Thanks @texnixe :pray:
At least one issue was resolved!