footnotes stop working, when using glossarify

[MrGung]

Hi,

I am using vuepress 1.1.0 with markdown-it-footnote 3.0.2.

When activating glossarify (2.0.0) - footnotes stop working, i.e. [^footnote1] is displayed verbatim instead of being a link.

[about-code]

I suspect what causes the references to be displayed verbatim is the fact that the markdown AST stringifier remark-stringify used internally translates the colon of the footnote into an HTML entity sequence, so instead of

This is a text with a footnote [^footnote].

[^footnote]: This is correct

it renders

This is a text with a footnote [^footnote].

[^footnote]: This is wrong

I played around with the respective remark-stringify options options.gfm and options.entities with no success so far. Part of the problem could be that there is no distinct representation of footnotes in the AST produced by remark-parse which adheres to the CommonMark Specfication. This spec, which is currently at v0.29, doesn't specify footnotes, so they must be considered custom markdown extensions of the markdown-it toolsuite used with vuepress.

This is not to say it's impossible to solve but just to provide a bit more context to the issue and why footnotes do not work out of the box at the moment.

[about-code]

Okay turned out to be easier than expected. After a look at the source files I found that remark-parse and remark-stringify both already implement support for footnotes but the feature must be enabled explicitely with the parser and options.footnotes (instead of the stringifier where I looked first).

Since they are not yet officially part of the CommonMark Spec glossarify-md v2.1.0 will also require explicit feature toggling by a separate boolean config option experimentalFootnotes. When set to true footnotes will be rendered according to Pandoc syntax as expected by markdown-it-footnote.

[MrGung]

Thanks for the ultra fast fix. I'll bump up the Version on monday.

[MrGung]

Works! Thanks!