How to use Pandoc markdown for footnotes?

[jtbayly]

The title is the question.

The bookdown book says that it uses Pandoc markdown with some additions, but then it says that footnotes are made inline like so:

^[This is a footnote.]

However, the Pandoc way of putting footnotes in a book allows for naming the footnote inline like so:

Here is a footnote reference,[^1]

and the footnote itself can be at the end of the document like so:

[^1]: Here is the footnote.

I would love to be able to just use the Pandoc method. Is this possible? A setting I can change somewhere?

[cderv]

Hi,

It should be working fine already.

In bookdown-demo repo I added

# Literature

Here is a review of existing methods[^1].

[^1]: a footnote

in the file 02-literature.md and I correctly got the footnote.

What did you try?

[jtbayly]

Oh brother. I’m sorry. I promise I tried it before posting. I just checked, and I forgot the colon.