Add support for footnotes

README.md

@@ -137,6 +137,10 @@ This plugin assumes that the `mmdc` mermaid commandline tool is available, and w
 
 If there are errors with the mermaid syntax, it is treated as a normal codeblock and the warning is logged.
 
+### Footnotes
+
+Adds support for Pandoc-style footnotes. Any `text` rich texts that contain footnote references in the format `[^NUMBER]` (eg: `...some claim [^2].`) will be linked to the corresponding footnote paragraph block starting with `[NUMBER]:` (eg: `[2]: This is a footnote.`).
+
 ## Architecture
 
 N2y's architecture is divided into four main steps:
@@ -180,6 +184,7 @@ Here are some features we're planning to add in the future:
 - Add support for dumping the notion urls using `--url-property`.
 - Add support for all types of rollups (including arrays of other values)
 - Add a property to rich text arrays, rich text, and mention instances back to the block they're contained in IF they happen to be contained in a block (some rich text arrays, etc. are from property values). This is useful when developing plugins.
+- Add `n2y.plugins.footnotes` plugin
 
 ### v0.4.2
 

n2y/page.py

@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ def __init__(self, client, notion_data):
         self._block = None
         self._children = None
 
+        self.plugin_data = {}
+
     @property
     def title(self):
         for property_value in self.properties.values():

n2y/plugins/footnotes.py

@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+import re
+import logging
+
+from pandoc.types import Note, Str, Para
+
+from n2y.rich_text import TextRichText
+from n2y.blocks import ParagraphBlock
+from n2y.errors import UseNextClass
+
+
+plugin_data_key = "n2y.plugins.footnotes"
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class ParagraphWithFootnoteBlock(ParagraphBlock):
+    def __init__(self, client, notion_data, page, get_children=True):
+        super().__init__(client, notion_data, page, get_children)
+        if self._is_footnote():
+            self._attach_footnote_data()
+        else:
+            raise UseNextClass()
+
+    def to_pandoc(self):
+        return None
+
+    def _attach_footnote_data(self):
+        if plugin_data_key not in self.page.plugin_data:
+            self.page.plugin_data[plugin_data_key] = {}
+        if self._footnote() not in self.page.plugin_data[plugin_data_key]:
+            self.page.plugin_data[plugin_data_key][self._footnote()] = self._footnote_ast()
+            if self._footnote_empty():
+                msg = 'Empty footnote "[%s]" (%s)'
+                logger.warning(msg, self._footnote(), self.notion_url)
+        else:
+            msg = 'Multiple footnotes for "[%s]", skipping latest (%s)'
+            logger.warning(msg, self._footnote(), self.notion_url)
+
+    def _is_footnote(self):
+        return self._footnote() is not None
+
+    def _footnote(self):
+        first_str = self.rich_text.to_plain_text().split(" ")[0]
+        footnotes = re.findall(r"\[(\d+)\]:", first_str)
+        if len(footnotes) != 1:
+            return None
+        return footnotes[0]
+
+    def _footnote_ast(self):
+        ast = super().to_pandoc()
+        if isinstance(ast, list):
+            first_paragraph_footnote_stripped = Para(ast[0][0][2:])
+            remaining_paragraphs = ast[1:]
+            return [first_paragraph_footnote_stripped] + remaining_paragraphs
+        else:
+            paragraph_footnote_stripped = Para(ast[0][2:])
+            return paragraph_footnote_stripped
+
+    def _footnote_empty(self):
+        return len(self.rich_text.to_plain_text()) == 0
+
+
+class TextRichTextWithFootnoteRef(TextRichText):
+    def __init__(self, client, notion_data, block=None):
+        super().__init__(client, notion_data, block)
+        if not self._is_footnote():
+            raise UseNextClass()
+
+    def to_pandoc(self):
+        pandoc_ast = []
+        for token in super().to_pandoc():
+            ref = self._footnote_from_token(token)
+            if ref is None:
+                pandoc_ast.append(token)
+                continue
+            if ref not in self.block.page.plugin_data[plugin_data_key]:
+                pandoc_ast.append(token)
+                msg = 'Missing footnote "[%s]". Rendering as plain text (%s)'
+                logger.warning(msg, ref, self.block.notion_url)
+                continue
+            self._append_footnote_to_ast(pandoc_ast, token, ref)
+        return pandoc_ast
+
+    def _append_footnote_to_ast(self, pandoc_ast, token, ref):
+        block = self.block.page.plugin_data[plugin_data_key][ref]
+        footnote = Note(block) if isinstance(block, list) else Note([block])
+        prefix, suffix = token[0].split(f"[^{ref}]")
+        pandoc_ast.append(Str(prefix))
+        pandoc_ast.append(footnote)
+        pandoc_ast.append(Str(suffix))
+
+    def _is_footnote(self):
+        return any(self._footnote_from_token(t) is not None for t in super().to_pandoc())
+
+    def _footnote_from_token(self, token):
+        if not isinstance(token, Str):
+            return None
+        refs = re.findall(r"\[\^(\d+)\]", token[0])
+        if len(refs) != 1:
+            return None
+        return refs[0]
+
+
+notion_classes = {
+    "blocks": {"paragraph": ParagraphWithFootnoteBlock},
+    "rich_texts": {"text": TextRichTextWithFootnoteRef},
+}

tests/test_end_to_end.py

@@ -263,6 +263,7 @@ def test_builtin_plugins(tmp_path):
         '--plugin', 'n2y.plugins.removecallouts',
         '--plugin', 'n2y.plugins.rawcodeblocks',
         '--plugin', 'n2y.plugins.mermaid',
+        '--plugin', 'n2y.plugins.footnotes',
         '--media-root', str(tmp_path),
     ])
     assert status == 0
@@ -281,6 +282,11 @@ def test_builtin_plugins(tmp_path):
     assert 'Raw markdown should show up' in lines
     assert 'Raw html should not show up' not in lines
 
+    assert "# Header with Footnotes[^1]" in lines
+    assert "Paragraph with footnote.[^2]" in lines
+    assert "[^1]: First **footnote**." in lines
+    assert "[^2]: Second footnote" in lines
+
 
 def test_missing_object_exception():
     invalid_page_id = "11111111111111111111111111111111"