MD Reader 2.1.0

Footnotes your way

Long footnotes no longer break up the text.

• By default a footnote shows as a small number. Tap or click it to read the footnote in a popup next to the number, or in a panel at the bottom of the screen on a phone. Click outside the popup, press Esc, use the close button or turn the page to close it. A footnote that links to another footnote opens that one. You can also reach the numbers with Tab and open them with Enter.

• New Footnotes setting, in the Appearance panel and in plugin settings:

  • Number, text on tap (default)
  • In the text, in brackets (the previous behaviour)
  • Hidden

  Switching modes keeps your place in the book, and there is no need to re-import.

• FB2 and EPUB import now writes standard Markdown footnotes: [^1] in the text, with the footnotes listed at the end of the file. An imported book is an ordinary note, and its footnotes work in the Obsidian editor too.

• Your own notes with [^1] footnotes get the same treatment. Before, footnote references in a big note split into blocks showed up as plain [^1].

Books imported before 2.1 have their footnotes baked into the text. Re-import them to use the new modes.

Fixes

• EPUB footnote markers wrapped in <sup> were raised twice. In the old bracket mode, the whole footnote text ended up in superscript.
• A footnote on a chapter title no longer adds its number to the table of contents.

Validation: 118 logic and 98 UI checks passed. A headless Chromium run with a simulated Obsidian host passed 37 more checks covering FB2 and EPUB import, the popup, the bottom panel and mode switching. Also checked by hand in Obsidian. The Playwright layout and reading suites were not run for this release.