A toy program that numbers foot-notes in a way I would prefer
I tired quickly of numbering foot-notes, in a text-file, myself.
If I had Foot-note Number 1 and Foot-note Number 2, and I suddenly wanted to add a foot-note in between them, I had to make room for a new(er) Foot-note Number 2. So I have to re-number the old(er) Foot-note Number 2 to Foot-note Number 3.
So, I thought, if I could give, to these foot-notes, any arbitrary number - or indeed, any alpha-numeric combination - how nice would it be if a program could number these for me: starting from the number 1 to the final number that represents the last foot-note in the text I have written.
I want to do something like the way the Extended Syntax of Markdown handles foot-notes. An example can be seen there
An expected input looks like the following:
Here's a foot-note,[^1] and here's another, longer, one.[^longnote]
[^1]: This is the first foot-note.
[^longnote]: This is the second foot-note.
And here is the expected output:
Here's a foot-note,[^1] and here's another longer one.[^2]
[^1]: This is the first foot-note.
[^2]: This is the second foot-note.
Can you spot the difference?
I assume you have Python set up, and optionally, Git Bash (if you are using the operating system Windows). Here is how you can operate the program in Windows:
- Get a copy of the program. In your Git Bash (or similar), run:
git clone https://github.com/phtan/footoe.git - Now open a Command Prompt instead of Git Bash
- Navigate to the directory that you downloaded in Step 1 above.
For example, by running:
cd footoe python .\footoe\footoe.py -h