Fix footnote labels appearing out-of-order (#536) #612
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This PR follows up on a comment on #536 that shows that the footnote labels are appearing out-of-order, even though the footnote links themselves are accurate. This bug was due to the out-of-order processing of some markdown elements and the order of insertion into the
footnote_idslist.Example:
The footnote label is inserted as each footnote is processed. However, the list is processed first, which means its footnote is processed firstthat it is given the label of
1mistakenly.This PR fixes that by instead inserting a placeholder here, and then postprocessing the entire text top-to-bottom, which fixes the labelling.