How to format footnotes with Markdown on Tumblr

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I'm not sure I can get proper documentation on this, I've been to this tumblr help center and this discussion on Meta SO about Markdown footnotes, I saw interesting comment from Arjan that Drupal made it possible.

How can I write Markdown footnotes in Tumblr?

I tried <sup>1</sup>, which works on SE sites ^{like so}, but it doesn't work on Tumblr.

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Make sure you've got Tumblr set to format your posts with Markdown here. Then, the syntax is:

That's some text with a footnote.[^1]

[^1]: And that's the footnote.

As noted here.

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GitHub Markdown – Strikethrough Formatting

Use ~~double tildes around the words~~.

Tumblr – How to Format a Sub List with Markdown

I don't use Tumblr myself, but on all other markdown-using sites that I'm familiar with (StackExchance included), the syntax

1. Bullet one.
 1. Bullet one. one.
 2. Bullet one. two.
2. Bullet two

gives the result you're looking for as far as generating correct HTML is concerned:

Bullet one.
1. Bullet one. one.
2. Bullet one. two.
Bullet two

The appearance of the list once you've defined it as being one is outside the scope of Markdown. That's controlled by editing your CSS. (Assuming you CAN edit your Tumblr theme. Again, I've never used it.)

If you want the 1.1. format for nested lists, there are instructions for suitably standards-compliant browsers on this StackOverflow answer. (Which basically means no IE6 or IE7 and the workaround for them either requires ditching Markdown or writing some Javascript for your template)

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GitHub Markdown – Strikethrough Formatting

Tumblr – How to Format a Sub List with Markdown

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