Drafts Directory: Footnote 2

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Posted by @davenicholls, Last update about 6 years ago

Prompts for the footnote text and adds both the inline element ( [^xxx] ) and footnote at the end of the draft ( [^xxx]:)

‘xxx’ is a randomly generated 3 character string.

Returns you to where you left off to continue typing.

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Steps

script



var p = Prompt.create();
p.isCancellable = "true";
p.title = "Enter the footnote text";
p.addTextField("footnote","","",{"wantsFocus":true});
p.addButton("Add");

if (p.show()) {

  var content = editor.getText();
 
  do {
    var fn = Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,5);
    srch=new RegExp ("\\[\\^"+fn+"\\]")
  }
  while (content.match(srch));
  
  var selRange = editor.getSelectedRange();
  
  editor.focus();
  var inline = "[^"+fn+"]";
  var footnote = "\n[^"+fn+"]: "+p.fieldValues["footnote"];

  if (p.buttonPressed == "Add") {
    editor.setSelectedText(inline);

    content = editor.getText() + footnote;
    editor.setText(content);
    editor.setSelectedRange(selRange[0]+inline.length,0);

  }

}

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