Hugo Footnotes

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 12:41:21 +0100

I was just scrolling though this list of Markdown features supported by Hugo and noticed that footnotes was one of them. I like footnotes a lot and had a quick look into using them before, but they didn’t work back then. But that was maybe before I looked into using Goldmark as the Markdown processor when writing my last article about code syntax highlighting with Hugo.

Enabling footnotes with Goldmark Link to heading

So it seems I enabled them like this recently when I introduced Goldmark:

Hugo Syntax Highlighting

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 18:41:51 +0100

TL;DR 🚀

As much as I like Hugo, trying to figure out syntax highlighting when writing the last post, wasn’t as straight forward as I wanted it to be. The information I was looking for was a bit all over the place.

First it seems that Hugo is able to use different Markdown handlers. Basically different processors to generate HTML from Markdown. According to Wikipedia Markdown was invented in 2004 by no other than Aaron Swartz. And it also seems Hugo not only supports Markdown handlers, but also processors, which handle other formats, like rst, pandoc or even HTML. Crazy, writing HTML like it’s the 90s 🙃 Here is a list of all content format options.

Markdown on /prəˈtruːd/

Hugo Footnotes

Enabling footnotes with Goldmark Link to heading

Hugo Syntax Highlighting