18:29:30 <StyXman> I can't find how to write foot notes. I found [#1] and .. [#1] at https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/restructuredtext/basics.html#footnotes but doesn't work. what am I missing? 19:32:28 <StyXman> ok, it's some form of [...]_ + .. [...], but I can't figure out what's ... 19:32:45 <StyXman> tried: #1, #f1, #, 1 19:32:47 <StyXman> no works 19:32:56 <StyXman> none works* 19:54:15 <ChrisWarrick> StyXman: can you show the entire rst file? 19:54:28 <StyXman> sure 19:54:42 <ChrisWarrick> see also https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/user/rst/quickref.html#footnotes 19:54:50 <StyXman> https://dpaste.org/fxCOJ 19:55:40 <StyXman> I tried those 19:55:51 <ChrisWarrick> StyXman: try adding a space before the footnote reference in text 19:56:15 <ChrisWarrick> e.g. more than one person? [1]_ Also, 19:56:18 <StyXman> oh 19:56:35 <ChrisWarrick> yeah, REST tends to be anal like that 19:56:56 <ChrisWarrick> (also, I almost typed an acronym for an even more annoying $work thing instead of REST…) 19:57:01 <StyXman> dang, that was it 19:57:22 <StyXman> rest tends to be not a lawyer? :-P 19:57:45 <ChrisWarrick> annoying and picky 19:57:48 <StyXman> what about external links with a differente text? 19:58:03 <ChrisWarrick> what do you mean? 19:58:13 <StyXman> yes, yes, just joking, you seem to be pissed about $WORK 19:58:19 <ChrisWarrick> not really 19:58:33 <StyXman> I come from md, I'm using [offline maps](http://help.codesector.com/MapsCache) 19:58:46 <ChrisWarrick> but yelling at the four-letter thing at $work gets in your blood quickly 19:58:56 <StyXman> ah, hmm, the reference, let me reread it 19:58:58 <ChrisWarrick> https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/user/rst/quickref.html#external-hyperlink-targets 19:59:49 <ChrisWarrick> you can also use an anonymous link: `offline maps`__ and then __ http://whatever in a line/paragraph of its own 20:22:42 <StyXman> does that scale well? 20:26:00 <ChrisWarrick> how many links do you expect? 20:26:26 <StyXman> sometimes 20 20:26:26 <ChrisWarrick> also, if you don’t care about having all your links at the bottom of the document, you can just put it directly after the paragraph the link is in 20:26:46 <StyXman> maybe more 20:26:53 <ChrisWarrick> you can always use the named links if anonymous links don’t work out for you 20:27:00 <StyXman> I have a couple of very linky posts 20:27:32 <StyXman> oh, so __ is a name? 20:27:39 <ChrisWarrick> no 20:28:12 <StyXman> so I can do "`foo`__ and `bar`__" and it'll work as long as I keep the links in the right order? 20:28:18 <ChrisWarrick> yes 20:28:23 <StyXman> right, good enought 20:28:42 <StyXman> writing the rewriter's gonna be a pain, thank got tests :) 20:28:49 <ChrisWarrick> rewriter? 20:28:54 <StyXman> s/got/$GOD/ 20:29:09 <StyXman> I'm not gonna rewrite 9 years f posts by hand :) 20:29:11 <ChrisWarrick> if you’ve got content in markdown or whatever, it can stay in markdown 20:29:30 <ChrisWarrick> re links: https://bpa.st/QMSA 20:29:33 <StyXman> yeah, but I _need_ to use ... 20:29:46 <ChrisWarrick> you need to use what? 20:29:56 <StyXman> bah, I never managed to make footnotes to work on md 20:30:06 <StyXman> bah, on ikiwiki's md 20:30:20 <ChrisWarrick> you should have more luck with python-markdown 20:30:32 <ChrisWarrick> https://python-markdown.github.io/extensions/footnotes/ 20:30:38 <ChrisWarrick> that extension should be enabled by default in nikola 20:30:59 <StyXman> hmmm. and maybe just make my script to write the sidecar files... 20:31:19 <StyXman> I still have to convert some ikiwiki formatting to something else 20:31:31 <StyXman> I definitely like md format best 20:31:50 <StyXman> hmm, let's see 20:49:33 <StyXman> damn, conf.py is a beast... 20:53:50 <StyXman> wow, it looks awesome 20:58:40 <ChrisWarrick> that’s great to hear :) 21:13:04 <StyXman> I still need to write a porter, but it's much less work