got you, I’m on linux so I can’t tell for sure if it could be a mac bug.
You might have already done this, but try testing other obsidian community themes, perhaps there’s something wrong with the obsidian.css of the theme you are currently using.
When I use two asterisks to apply italic style to my first footnote, all the text following the second asterisk become italic as well, even including the next footnote:
Footnotes in Markdown can be multi-line, so each should be terminated with a blank line, or at least a forced line break (two spaces at the end of a line).
The first word in a footnote does not have formatting applied in Live Preview mode.
Steps to reproduce
Create a footnote with the [^1] and [^1]: text syntax.
Try to use formatting (bold, italic) on the first word of the footnote.
Expected result
The words should be formatted correctly.
Actual result
The first word has no formatting applied.
Live Preview:
Reading mode:
Environment
Operating system: Linux
Debug info:
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v0.13.24
Installer version: v0.13.24
Operating system: #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 29 12:57:02 UTC 2022 (b146677) 5.16.4-1-default
Login status: logged in
Catalyst license: insider
Insider build toggle: on
Live preview: on
Legacy editor: off
Base theme: dark
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Safe mode: on
RECOMMENDATIONS:
none
[^1]: [link](link.md) is a clickable link that changes
Actual result
[^1]: [link](link.md) was just plain text
Environment
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.3.7
Installer version: v1.3.5
Operating system: Windows 10 Education 10.0.22621
Login status: logged in
Catalyst license: none
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Legacy editor: off
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: Everforest v0.0.0
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 22
Plugins enabled: 18
1: Obsidian Link Converter v0.1.4
2: Readwise Official v2.0.1
3: Excalidraw v1.9.12
4: Text Extractor v0.4.6
5: Periodic Notes v0.0.17
6: Calendar v1.5.10
7: Note Refactor v1.7.1
8: Paste image rename v1.6.1
9: Dataview v0.5.56
10: Smart Random Note v0.2.1
11: Annotator v0.2.10
12: Frontmatter Tag Suggest v0.4.1
13: Tag Wrangler v0.5.11
14: Omnisearch v1.15.2
15: Footnote Shortcut v0.1.2
16: Citations v0.4.5
17: Reading Time v1.1.1
18: Janitor v1.0.7
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Custom theme and snippets: for cosmetic issues, please first try updating your theme and disabling your snippets. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community theme and snippets.
Community plugins: for bugs, please first try updating all your plugins to latest. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community plugins.
Is it clickable in Reading View? hI assume you’re in Live Preview).
I get a clickable link on iPadOS in both Live Preview and Reading View.
Your debug info shows plugins enabled. I realize you may have generated the debug info before or after troubleshooting, but just to double-check: did you turn on restricted mode and restart Obsidian?
FWIW, I also get clickable links in live preview and reading mode with this dummy text:
Link in a footnote: ^[[[link]]]
Another simple footnote[^1].
And with a different link format[^q]
[^1]: here is a link to the file [[link]]
[^q]: link to [the same file](link)
I think this is a similar issue to what I described in the following bug report:
Similarly to HTML elements, links don’t display as expected in Live Preview if they are the first thing in the footnote content. That may be why it was not reproduced. I was able to reproduce this on v1.3.7: