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Links & Footnotes ​

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Links point somewhere else. Footnotes hold an aside at the bottom of the document. WriteRoom writes both for you and keeps them numbered.

  • Format > Links & Footnotes > Add Link… (Command-K). The selection becomes the link text and the caret moves to where the URL goes.
  • Or paste a URL over selected text.

A bare domain like hogbaysoftware.com opens as an https link.

  1. Put the caret in the heading's section and choose Edit > Copy > Link to Heading
  2. Paste where you want the link

The link points to the heading's anchor, like [Soil](#soil). Command-click it to go there.

  • Go > Open Link (Command-Return) with the caret in the link
  • Or Command-click the link
  • Or Control-click the link and choose Open Link
  • Go > Previous Link
  • Go > Next Link

A Reference Link keeps the URL out of your sentence. The text says [WriteRoom][1], and a definition elsewhere says [1]: https://….

  • Format > Links & Footnotes > Add Reference Link (Shift-Command-K). WriteRoom numbers it and adds the definition.
  • Format > Links & Footnotes > Convert to Reference Link
  • Format > Links & Footnotes > Convert to Inline Link

Type ][ to choose from the labels already defined.

Footnotes ​

A footnote reference looks like [^1], and its note starts with [^1]:. Indent following lines four spaces to keep them in the note.

To add a footnote ​

  • Format > Links & Footnotes > Add Footnote (Option-Command-K). WriteRoom adds the next numbered note.

Type [^ to choose from the notes already defined.

To go between a reference and its note ​

  • Go > Go to Definition (Control-Command-J)
  • Or Command-click the reference or the note

Hiding the Markup ​

With WriteRoom > Settings > Markdown > Hide link and footnote marks turned on, a link shows only its text, and footnotes show as small raised numbers. Numbers follow the order the notes appear in the document.

Format > Check Document… finds references and footnotes with no definition, definitions nothing uses, links to headings that don't exist, and links to missing files. See Clean Up & Check.

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