Coming back to a very old post, would it be sensible to include a footnote plugin into BB BBS discourse installation? (And are you the right person to ask? Are you servicing this instance?)
I specifically ask if it’s sensible, since I guess there will be a trade-off between people who would be using this (me, sometimes*), the amount of time to install it, the amount of time to service this, and the amount of additional server capacity this would need. (Me, for one? I’d go for it. I like footnotes!â€
*I just made a footnotes with <sup> and <sub> here.
†Sir Pterry saw to that. Otherwise, I’m a scientist, not trained in humanities much. We tend to have attributed in-text citations [citation needed] with references. Footnotes are discouraged‡.
‡[citation needed].