
"Other authors have cool links between the text and their footnotes! I want to be really fancy!" It's not too different from the way books do it, really. That looks much nicer, and it clearly differentiates between footnotes and main text.
And even more confusingly, AO3 doesn't natively allow every possible use of html, so even looking at an html guide may not help. You're among friends here.īut html can be confusing 1. Or another original work that includes footnotes. If you're writing fanfiction for Good Omens 1, you may find yourself wanting to include footnotes 2. By following the example above (putting around each number and before your footnotes, before and after each individual footnote in a block, and at the end of the block of footnotes, you can make something that looks like this: Leave the s and the s and anything else you may see as they are. If you copied formatted text into the rich text editor, AO3 probably already added a bunch of weird formatting stuff and " "s and maybe a bunch of random looking s, depending on where you originally wrote up your text. Getting into the html editor can be intimidating. What can you do?Īnd even more confusingly, AO3 doesn't natively allow every possible use of html, so even looking at an html guide may not help. You're among friends here.īut html can be confusing1. Or another original work that includes footnotes. If you're writing fanfiction for Good Omens1, you may find yourself wanting to include footnotes2. But what if you want to be fancy? Read on, my friend. It's not the most fancy or elegant thing, but it gets the job done, and it isn't particularly distracting, really. Well, you can always stick to what I just did and make your footnotes the paragraph after the one that they're attached to.
And even more confusingly, AO3 doesn't natively allow every possible use of html, so even looking at an html guide may not help. You're among friends here.īut html can be confusing. If you're writing fanfiction for Good Omens, you may find yourself wanting to include footnotes.ġ.Or another original work that includes footnotes.Ģ.Possibly a lot of footnotes. Step 0: So You Want To Write a Footnote Fic