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WP-Footnotes test

posted by [c] on September 13, 2011

Just checking out this footnotes plugin and testing it with some text below (continue to main post).

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 Aymara¹ culture in the high Andes, or the Sumerian² 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.

So this now works well after styling the CSS using some excellent markup from github (get it here https://gist.github.com/413930), that keeps your line spacing or leading intact. Looks like Paul Irish has incorporated it into his HTML5 Boilerplate too, so that suggests it’s pretty solid.

The one problem I seem to be having is that, whether in WP-footnotes or in Markdown for WordPress (thanks Robert, for the tip), the number prefix is not showing up in the footnote and I don’t know why this is. Tried using firebug to have a look at it but don’t see anything in the CSS or HTML markup that would be a problem, hmmm.

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. [↩]