Added a flag for footnote square brackets

Signed-off-by: Sandy <sandy@sandyuraz.com>

emilia/toml.go

@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ type WebsiteConfig struct {
 	NormalizeHeadings bool `toml:"normalize_headings"`
 	// RomanFootnotes tells if we have to use roman numerals for footnotes
 	RomanFootnotes bool `toml:"roman_footnotes"`
+	// FootnoteBrackets decides whether to use brackets on footnotes
+	FootnoteBrackets bool `toml:"footnote_brackets"`
 }
 
 // AuthorConfig is the author section of the config

html/utils.go

@@ -60,9 +60,17 @@ func processText(text string) string {
 
 	text = internals.FootnotePostProcessingRegexp.ReplaceAllStringFunc(text, func(what string) string {
 		num, _ := strconv.Atoi(strings.ReplaceAll(what, "!", ""))
-		return fmt.Sprintf(`
-<sup class="footnote">[<a id="_footnoteref_%d" class="footnote" href="#_footnotedef_%d" title="View footnote.">%s</a>]</sup>
-		`, num, num, footnoteLabel(num))
+		// get the footnote HTML body
+		footnote := fmt.Sprintf(
+			`<a id="_footnoteref_%d" class="footnote" href="#_footnotedef_%d" title="View footnote.">%s</a>`,
+			num, num, footnoteLabel(num))
+		// Decide if we need to wrap the footnote in square brackets
+		if emilia.Config.Website.FootnoteBrackets {
+			footnote = "[" + footnote + "]"
+		}
+		return `
+<sup class="footnote">` + footnote + `</sup>
+`
 	})
 
 	return strings.TrimSpace(text)

ishmael/darkness.toml

@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ description_length = 137
 normalize_headings = false
 # Roman Footnotes tells if we have to use roman numerals for footnotes
 roman_footnotes = true
+# Decide whether to use brackets on footnotes
+footnote_brackets = true
 
 # This is the author header section
 [author]