At the risk of Dropboxing myself: what is the advantage of this over the existing Markdown syntax for footnotes[1]? It looks very similar, but with a harder to parse grammar.
This made me laugh. I appreciate you.
> but with a harder to parse grammar
Grammar is actually quite simple once you've mastered the Grammar language (https://pldb.com/languages/grammar.html) which has almost no documentation and is full of bugs.
> what is the advantage of this over the existing Markdown syntax for footnotes[1]
I can't speak definitively yet. I think it will be better but I need to use it for a few months to be sure. There are some subtle things I think will be important.
In case I came across as overly negative: I think the overall syntax and project here are very cool. I’ll be following your work!
This is some text with a footnote.[^1]
[^1]: And that's the footnote.
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