Is it possible to render uncited footnotes/references?

[mason]

@irkode

I would not go for footnotes without backreference due to user expectations and the definition of footnotes.

footnotes (in most cases) are explanatory, additional information for the marked text. They are extracted to a footnote to encance reading experients – usually you don’t have to read it.

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usually additional page level documents are listed under something like “further readings”, “references” , …

The problem here is that it looks worse, and you can’t get consistent numbering. For example See

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FWIW I really wish there was a separation between footnotes and citations and that both had more flexibility overall:

• the ability to customise the text of the note.
• the ability to add prefix or postfix information to the note
• subnotes (i.e., one reference, but different pages)
• ideally loading some references from a bittex file

what I want it probably sufficient to need an entire hugo extension of some sort (I don’t know the terminology yet) but is a bit off topic from this thread.