I seem to remember having seen a shortcut to put footnotes in one's posts. However I can't find anything in About the PerlMonks FAQ - so I may well have just imagined it.

In any case is there any recommendation wrt how to create them? Should I explicitly put href links pointing to internal anchors? If so, would href="#anchor" be enough or should that be href="?node_id=whatever#anchor"? - Ok, I may just test to answer the latter question, but who knows? maybe it wouldn't be guaranteed to work all of the time or there may be other quirks I'm not aware of...

Update: right now I've tried using: 

Something<A HREF="#1"><SMALL><SUP>1</SUP></SMALL></A>

[snip]

<P><A NAME="1"><SMALL><SUP>1</SUP></SMALL></A> Whatever...

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Seems to be OK...

In reply to [HOWTO] Footnotes? by blazar

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