Non-breaking space after the indexes

  • Resolved pavelberg1

    (@pavelberg1)


    3 years, 5 months ago

    Thank you for your work. This is a truly complete set for automating footnotes.

    Could you consider adding a “bulletproof” non-breaking space before footnotes indexes? We all know that this is poorly implemented in WordPress: adding an unbreakable space almost always ends in surprises. At the same time, the rules of typography require this.

    Thanks again!

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  • Plugin Contributor pewgeuges

    (@pewgeuges)

    @pavelberg1

    Thank you for your positive feedback. I was looking carefully at these issues when working on the plugin. I’ve just double-checked on a page with footnotes formatted by Footnotes to make sure the referrers stick to the words even where lines are broken.

    Per the Chicago Manual of Style, we should “Leave no space between the superscript (note number) in the text and the word or mark of punctuation it follows.” That is consistent with all typographic styles I’m aware of.

    Thank you for raising awareness about diverging typography. I’m very interested in learning which locale or style has this requirement.

    For now I’ve only got hold of 2?related search results (out of?the?5 brought up by the engine):

    https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#Space_before_footnote_number

    https://github.com/source-academy/sicp/issues/34

    Both are consistent with CMOS.

    Plugin Contributor pewgeuges

    (@pewgeuges)

    @pavelberg1,

    I understand that non-Latin scripts may have other requirements.

    Please add this rule to Custom?CSS:

    
.footnote_referrer {
  padding-inline-start: .18em;
}

    The value of 0.18?em may need fine-tuning to meet your requirements.

    Best regards.

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