[c]

Using PHP markdown extra for superscripts

posted by [c] on September 15, 2011

It’s actually Markdown for WordPress, which is based on PHP Markdown, here’s the test paragraph below:

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The discipline of design may be a relatively recent development, but the practices it utilises have ostensibly existed since the beginning of civilisation, in fact, civilisation is the result of these design practices. Historically, design was directed toward mediation between man and the natural world, and there are myriad examples of how early cultures used design to improve the conditions of life. Shelters designed by the nomadic plains Indians of North America, entire floating communities of the Uro Aymara[^1] culture in the high Andes, or the Sumerian[^2] development of organised agriculture—in the face of a natural world that challenged not just man’s creature comforts but his very existence, design has been intrinsic to the development of mankind and civilisation.

[^1]: 1* The world’s highest lake, in the altitudes of the Andes Mountains, would not surprisingly be a place where nature would challenge man’s existence. Yet here on Lake Titicaca the people of the indigenous Uro Aymara culture continue to make use of the reeds that grow on the lake’s shore much as they did before their subjugation by the Inca civilisation hundreds of years ago. Not only do they make their famous totora rafts of this material, they also construct mats, baskets, fishing traps, homes and even floating communities. These design solutions allowed them to adapt and survive where there was no ready access to timber and allowed a degree of protection from other groups.
[^2]: 2* Around 5,500 BC the Sumerians utilised what could be called early systems design in the development of large scale and intensive land cultivation that included the planning of crop location and rotation, organised irrigation systems, labour practices, storage, and product distribution. Along with the domestication of animals, the organisation and later commercialisation of agriculture would allow for the expansion of the Sumerian culture and early empire building.

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It seems to work quite well but for some reason I have to manually enter the numbers at the start of the footnote. I think it must be something with my CSS or something that is causing it to not recognise. Not a big deal but I should try to fix it at some point.