Does Goldmark Support [^namedfootnotes]?

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I’m experimenting with switching from Blackfriday to Goldmark, and in most respects it seems better. One place it does not, however, is with named footnotes. With Blackfriday, I can use the named footnote syntax like so:

Blah blah blah[^butalso]

[^butalso]: Something I want to mention elsewhere.

Goldmark does properly parse and output these as footnotes, except that instead of using the name (<a href href="#fn:butalso"), it uses numbers (<a href="#fnref:1"). This is fine for single pages, but messes things up on list pages where multiple stories have footnotes, because it resets the count for each story. Anyone know of a Goldmark config to get it to use the names, or might it need to be a feature request for Goldmark?

Thanks!

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Goldmark cannot be configured in this way.

It has been requested before, and is unlikely to happen. See:

https://github.com/yuin/goldmark/issues/92
https://github.com/yuin/goldmark/pull/90
https://github.com/yuin/goldmark/pull/93

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Thanks. So I guess the next question is, has someone made a Goldmark extension for this, and if so, how does one use it with Hugo?

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Unknown. You might reach out to the author of https://github.com/yuin/goldmark/pull/93.

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Unknown. You might reach out to the author of Named footnotes by tv42 · Pull Request #93 · yuin/goldmark · GitHub

Yeah, I did in Use non-numeric footnote anchor in id and href · Issue #92 · yuin/goldmark · GitHub. sjml has replied.

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Ah, not dynamic, then. Pity. Guess I just have to accept broken footnotes on list pages or use blackfriday. :frowning:

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I guess another approach would be to add support for footnote render templates.

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