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Documentation

Footnote

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What are Footnotes

note is a string of text placed at the bottom of a page in a book or document or at the end of a chapter, volume, or the whole text. The note can provide an author’s comments on the main text or citations of reference work in support of the text.

Footnotes are notes placed at the bottom of a page. They cite references or comment on a designated part of the text above it. For example, say you want to add an interesting comment to a sentence you have written, but the comment is not directly related to the argument of your paragraph. In this case, you could add the symbol for a footnote.

Footnote Tools in Docy

You can mention the information reference/resource at the end of the Documentation article with Docy’s Footnote tool. See the Footnote in action-

Define Footnotes

At the first step, you have to define the Footnotes in the article with the [[reference number=""]] shortcode. Enter the number of the Footnote in the number attribute value. Every Footnote numbers should be unique as like ID.

Creating Footnote with Docy

You can easily create multi-column Footnotes with Docy. The below steps explains how to create the Footnotes section for your website articles.

  1. Go to the Page Edit
  2. Mark the Footnote switcher to Yes from Options :: Doc > Page Settings > Footnote to enable the Footnotes features for that page.
  1. Then the Footnote Options will appear in the Options :: Doc meta box. From there, you can add the Footnote resources of that doc page.
    Title: Enter the title of the Footnote
    Reference Number: Enter there the Reference Number of the Footnote that was mentioned in the documentation article with the [[reference number=""]] shortcode.
    Reference: Write there the referring source with links.
Docy’s Footnotes Meta Fields

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