MoinMoin: FeatureRequests/FootNoteMacroFilter

Suggestions for the FootNote Macro Filter

The new (Moin 1.6)¹ Footnote Macro Filter produces footnotes with back links ² that can not be easily hidden with CSS rules. For printed output, the back links are useless and should be hidden.³

While it is easy to hide the back links with the following added to print.css, the enclosing "()" characters are not easily hidden:

div.footnotes a {
        display: none;
}

Following is a snippet of the html. The problem is the placement of the enclosing "()" characters.

          <div class="footnotes">
            <ol>
              <li>
                <p>
                  <a id="fnref-544a80a0d3e1b324ba2c93c2105bc80a5a8e0b05" name="fnref-544a80a0d3e1b324ba2c93c2105bc80a5a8e0b05"></a><span class=
                  "anchor" id="line-1"></span>My first footnote. (<a href="#fndef-544a80a0d3e1b324ba2c93c2105bc80a5a8e0b05-0">1</a> <a href=
                  "#fndef-544a80a0d3e1b324ba2c93c2105bc80a5a8e0b05-3">2</a> <a href="#fndef-544a80a0d3e1b324ba2c93c2105bc80a5a8e0b05-4">3</a>)
                </p>
              </li>
              <li>
                <p>
                  <a id="fnref-29009029967c0f9b69a4398dac0c5119ad9917e1" name="fnref-29009029967c0f9b69a4398dac0c5119ad9917e1"></a><span class=
                  "anchor" id="line-1"></span>My second footnote. (<a href="#fndef-29009029967c0f9b69a4398dac0c5119ad9917e1-1">1</a> <a href=
                  "#fndef-29009029967c0f9b69a4398dac0c5119ad9917e1-2">2</a>)
                </p>
              </li>
            </ol>
          </div>

One possibility is to omit the enclosing "()" characters and use an icon instead of the number 1 for the first back link. (Maybe an angled arrow that goes down and to the left.) For users who rarely/never use duplicate footnotes, the presence of multiple "(1)" links after each footnote looks like a bug. For screen output, the back links are a nifty feature -- I like it.

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