Ambiguous definitions: footnotes without spacing

[quantizor]

using mdast.parse():

mdast.parse("foo[^abc] bar\n\n[^abc]: Baz", {footnotes: true});

The "Baz" portion actually is created as a regular definition and the corresponding reference at foo[^abc] is a linkReference.

However, if I add a second word to the definition, that fixes it and footerReference & footerDefinition are created as expected. e.g.

mdast.parse("foo[^abc] bar\n\n[^abc]: Baz baz", {footnotes: true});

So it seems like there might be a flaw in the parsing for footnotes that requires a sentence structure.

[wooorm]

Hey @yaycmyk. Thanks for raising the issues!

I’d like to take another look at the footnote grammar after version 3 (GH-96, GH-78). It will probably be removed from the core and into an external plug-in.

[wooorm]

This will be included in the upcoming release of mdast, 3.0.0, which I’ll expect to 🚢 before the new year.

[quantizor]

🎉