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On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 18:36:12 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس   سماوي حامد  
<ishamid@colostate.edu> wrote:

> Dear gang,
>
>   I've spent a considerable amount of time over the past month trying to
>   master the art of xhtml output. We are close to being able to use  
> ConTeXt
>   as a replacement for markdown in, e.g., WordPress. Indeed, I plan to
>   present the results of this experiment (porting an entire academic  
> article
>   to xhtml and WP) in a future article for one of the TeX journals...
>
>   There is at least one crucial feature that's still needed. Perhaps it  
> is
>   already supported: If so, it would be much appreciated if someone  
> kindly
>   explained how to do it.
>
>   In a web post (or epub), one wants to be able to interact back and  
> forth
>   with notes. Here is how markdown (extra) does it:
>
>   ========Input========
>   That's some text with a footnote.[^1]
>
>   [^1]: And that's the footnote.
>
>         That's the second paragraph of the note.
>
>   More main text
>   ========Output========
> <p>That's some text with a footnote.<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1"
>   rel="footnote">1</a></sup></p>
>   <p>More main text</p>
>
>   <div class="footnotes">
>   <hr />
>   <ol>
>   <li id="fn:1">
>   <p>And that's the footnote.</p>
>   <p>That's the second paragraph of the note.&nbsp;<a href="#fnref:1"
>   rev="footnote">&#8617;</a></p>
>   </li>
>   </ol>
>   </div>
>   =====================
>
>   The resulting html file is attached. '&#8617;' corresponds to U+21A9  
> (↩).
>   See also
>
> https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/#footnotes
>
>   Now we can of course already export xhtml footnotes from ConTeXt but  
> there
>   will be no interactive links. In the current project, there are 77
>   footnotes; I had to add the links manually to get the output to do  
> what we
>   wanted.
>
>   [Also note that it makes much more sense to export the footnotes as
>   endnotes, particularly for long blog posts.]
>
>   Is there already a way to get done automatically?
>
>   In any case: This feature is a must-do in my humble opinion. Aside  
> from a
>   few other export bugs, this is one of the few features still needed so
>   that ConTeXt can completely replace markdown for (advanced) web posts.
>   Thanks is advance and
>
>   Best wishes
>   Idris
>


-- 
Idris Samawi Hamid, Professor
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523