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Side notes

Markdown footnotes become side notes.Is the beginning aligned?
Is the beginning aligned?

It would be neat to associate a range of text with a footnote, rather than a single point.

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Markdown footnotes become side notes.[^1] It would be neat to associate a range of text with a footnote, rather than a single point.

[^1]: Is the beginning aligned?\
Is the beginning aligned?

Margin note

Markdown footnotes become side notes.⊕This is a margin note without a number. It spans just a few lines. Maybe it gets to three?

After the note. It would be neat to associate a range of text with a footnote, rather than a single point. This is longer text to give the paragraph some heft to it, so that the side note doesn’t feel overpowering.

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Markdown footnotes become side notes.[^margin]

[^margin]: {-} This is a margin note without a number.

Photos as margin note

Photo as a margin note.⊕This is a picture of something that we know about. time Time on

Actual Footnotes

Markdown footnotes become side notes.[^long] After the note. This paragraph is not short, but the margin note next to us is much longer, which pushes the subsequent notes further away from their anchor. But also, footnotes.¹

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Markdown footnotes become side notes.[^long] After the note. This paragraph is not short, but the margin note next to us is much longer, which pushes the subsequent notes further away from their anchor. But also, footnotes.[^foot]

[^foot]:
  {.} Use a prefix of `{.}` to leave it as a footnote. Unfortunately, side notes and margin notes don't share the same namespace. If you want to mix side notes and footnotes in the same document, you might want to use margin notes, so that there is only one kind of numbered note.

Use a prefix of {.} to leave it as a footnote. Unfortunately, side notes and margin notes don’t share the same namespace. If you want to mix side notes and footnotes in the same document, you might want to use margin notes, so that there is only one kind of numbered note.↩︎