In DT, clicking the link didn’t jump to the content of the footnote at the bottom of the page. Clicking the return link works though.
Is there any setting I need to configure to get this to work?
This example is not useful: The text is far too short to “jump” to anything when you click on a footnote – the notes are visible all the time anything.
If you have more text, everything works as it should.
And how it should, depends on the browser engine used to display the rendered markdown.
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You are right. With longer text, I can see that DT markdown editor “jump” to the footnote below. However, it didn’t jump to the exact footnote. For example, clicking 1 does not jump to footnote 1; clicking 5 does not jump to footnote 5.
For MarkEdit Preview, you can see that it jumps to the specific footnote. For example, click 2 jumps to footnote 2.
Is that how DT editor behaves? It will not jump to the specific footnote. Just bring you to the footnote area?
s that how DT editor behaves? It will not jump to the specific footnote. Just bring you to the footnote area?
Yes. Also, this is DEVONthink, not MarkEdit, and there is no standard footnote behavior in Markdown. Implementation in one app isn’t indicative of behavior in other apps.
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I’m not sure that I understand your issue. The editor doesn’t follow any links at all. At least not here. It’s the preview where I can click links and then the page moves so that the link is visible.
Furthermore, I don’t know what you see when you say that some app “jumps to footnote 2”. The renderer is just basically a browser in DT. It will not move a link target to the top of the window if there’s not enough stuff to display below. Said differently: It’ll never move the last line of the page more than the value of margin-block-end or margin-bottom above the window bottom.
The algorithm for that is described in the HTML specification, in the section “scroll a target into view”. As footnotes are always at the end of a document, it’s not reasonable to expect that jumping to one of them would scroll the document upwards so that white space after the last footnote is visble.
If that’s what you’re a looking for. It’s difficult to say just from uncommented screenshots.
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