Redmine

First of all, Redmine uses RedCloth for all its semantic formatting needs, which is an implementation of Textile.

Textile does indeed support footnotes, using the following syntax:

This is some foo[1].

fn1. And "foo" is related to "bar".

You can verify that indeed Textile supports footnotes (try that text with the link I provided). You can even try it with RedCloth:

RedCloth.new(text).to_html

The trouble is, Redmine extends RedCloth's parsing with its own processing (special links, and a few other extensions).

So, footnotes are not working (incidentally, in my job I'm still using 0.5.1, and it worked then!). Sadly, somewhere between 0.5.1 and 0.7.1.1415 footnotes parsing got broken.

A shame, as I used them frequently.

nachokb

And, ifI might add, you can see Redmine's modifications typing this in the console:

Redmine::WikiFormatting.to_html(a)

nachokb

Because I need footnotes I traversed all the redcloth revs in redmine and I found out, that the bug was born in r1113, which should fix ticket #210.

I think disable glyths at all is not the best solution.

Dmitry Pashkevich wrote:

This seems to be partially broken in Redmine 2.0.3.stable.9893 that I am using.

The fn1. gets recognized and gets transformed in to supertext but the reference [1] isn't transformed into a link and left as is.

Works in 2.1, I think that the note reference must be placed right after the word with no space between them.