Footnotes

Footnotes module can be used to easily create automatically numbered footnote references into an article or post (such as a reference to a URL).

Footnotes 2.2 finally brings to you a much requested feature: TinyMCE integration. This is added through a standalone module tinymce_footnotes, and was contributed by Drupal user elgreg. Another new feature is support for multiple references to the same footnote, that is, repeating the same number in multiple places in the body text. (See the README.txt or #636808: Multiple references to one footnote for more information.) Release 2.2 was only done for Drupal 6.x.

This release also includes "Better URL filter", which can be used to replace the (incomplete) URL filter available in Drupal core. Especially Footnotes users have suffered from the current URL filter, so the inclusion of a fixed URL filter in Footnotes provides for much awaited relief to Footnotes users. Even so, it is also possible to use Better URL filter independent of the Footnotes filter.

ABOUT FOOTNOTES (README.txt)

The Footnotes module can be used to create automatically numbered footnotes
within a text. In the place where you want to add a footnote enclose the
footnote text within an fn tag: [fn]like this[/fn]. By default, footnotes
are placed at the end of the text. You can also use a [footnotes] or
[footnotes /] tag to position it anywhere you want.

The filter will take the text within the tag and move it to a footnote at
the bottom of the page. In it's place it will place a number which is also
a link to the footnote. As of version 2.0 Footnotes supports both
[fn]square brackets[/fn] and angle brackets. Square brackets support
was added in particular to support WYSIWYG editors like FCKEditor and TinyMCE.

Also supported in 2.0 is the use of a "value" attribute to a) set the numbering
to use as a label or b) to set an arbitrary text string as label. Ex:

As of version 2.2 you can have multiple references to the same footnote in the
text body.

Version 2.2 also includes TinyMCE support as a seprate module tinymce_footnotes. See
that module's own README file for information.

BETTER URL FILTER

This version of Footnotes includes also a "Better URL filter". This is a fork of
the URL filter in Drupal core filter.module. The original URL filter is buggy
(or more accurately, very limited). If the enhancements in Better URL filter
are ever committed to Drupal core, this filter will (obviously) be deprecated.
(You can follow the bug in Drupal core URL filter here.)

In particular Footnotes users have suffered from the Drupal URL filter not converting
URL's inside footnotes to links, however, the Better URL filter can be used by
anyone wishing more correct URL filter functionality, even if you don't use footnotes.
(You don't even need to enable the Footnotes filters to use the Better URL filter.)

TEXTILE STYLE FOOTNOTES

There is also another filter which does the same with a Textile markup style.
Use it together with the Textile module.

Note: The Textile style filter is no longer actively developed and may become
deprecated. It is better to use the ... or [fn]...[/fn] style footnotes
with any markup you are using.

INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS FOR FOOTNOTES.MODULE

1. Copy the contents of this module to modules/footnotes folder.
2. Login as site administrator.
3. Activate footnotes on the administer->modules page.
4. To use the footnotes filter in some input formats, go to administer->input formats.
5. For selected input formats, select configure and activate a suitable footnotes filter.

Note: Typically you want the footnotes filter to be pretty early in the chain.
If you need to lift the Footnotes filter higher up, click "rearrange".

Also see section about HTML filter below.

HTML FILTER

Footnotes.module is designed such that it can be used together with Drupal's html filter,
and in particular you should have footnotes first and html filter later.

This version of Footnotes has been redesigned so that it only outputs html tags that
are allowed in a default installation of HTML filter. (Tags used are A, OL and LI.)

KNOWN ISSUES

Version 2.0 uses a new markup for the list of footnotes. It is an OL list with
CSS taking away the browser generated list numbers and moving the link numbers
towards the left. All IE versions have a bug that the numbers are slightly lower
than the baseline of the footnote text. (If you know how to fix this, please tell.)
In addition IE 5.5 has a more serious bug that the footnote number will be on top of
the first letters of the footnote text. There doesn't seem to be a way to fix this.

The development version of Drupal7 has a bug in that CSS and JavaScript files added
by modules are absent from the page. If you are hit by this bug, your footnote references
will not appear as supertext, and the list of footnotes will have duplicate numbering.
There is a workaround to empty Drupal's cache table in
Administer > Site Configuration > Performance > Clear cached data
after which everything works again.
To follow up on this bug, see #279420: Regression: hook_init never runs until cache is cleared manually.

COPYRIGHT AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Footnotes.module is copyrighted by Henrik Ingo and other contributors. It is licensed by
the same conditions as Drupal itself. (GPL license)

Footnotes.module was originally created by henrik.ingo@avoinelama.fi ("hingo" on drupal.org) in the summer of 2006.

The HTML footnotes were seriously enhanced by "beginner" (on drupal.org)
and later on by other users comments and code snippets.

Footnotes was originally developed for http://openlife.cc/onlinebook
Beginner was the second to use it on his site at
http://www.reuniting.info/wisdom/sources/metaphysical/a_course_in_miracl...

I wish to thank all contributors for letting me experience the miracle of maintaining an
Open Source module living its own life!

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