This is a sentence with a footnote.1 Markdown preprocessors will atempt to render it correctly, so you don‘t need plugins to do this. I think.

Since this site is built with Astro and has many Markdown components checking and double checking the output, most plugins are redundant. Heck, pretty soon humans will be redundant. Then BOOOOM!!!

But at least my text will render correctly with footnotes formatted correctly.

Here comes the lecture

The main problem over the past 40-50 years was that content formats for digital text was figured out in the 1990s, but writing the text, that was a problem. There simply wasn‘t one standardized way to write text files so that they told text renderers what to do.

That was, until John Gruber created Markdown. Now anybody could write the same stuff and knew the formatting would work reliably. It was a massive improvement over the nightmare of figuring out where the hidden character was that was destroying your Word file. Markdown is so ubiquitous that it‘s the native document format for almost every new platform.2

  1. Big note. Very important.

    I wonder how many deep this goes, or if you need to do it earlier. Anyways, guess what wasn‘t even needed? ↩

  2. Including this one! ↩