This document should help with testing of footnotes support that is introduced by the "markdown-footnotes" branch. It might look pretty misformatted unless rendered by the proper Fossil executable that incorporates the abovementioned branch.¹
That is also a humble attempt to explore the robustness of the Markdown parser. So please excuse for the mess in the source code of this document. By no means the normal use of footnotes should look that scarry.

Developers are invited to add test cases here². It is suggested that the more simple is a test case the earlier it should appear in this document.³

A footnote's label should be case insensitive⁴, it is whitespace-savvy and can even contain newlines.⁵

A labeled footnote may be referenced several times⁶.

A footnote's text should support Markdown markup⁷.

Another reference⁶ to the preveously used footnote.

Inline footnotes are supported.⁸

If undefined label is used⁹ then red "misref" is emited instead of a numeric marker.^misref This can be overridden by the skin though.

The refenrence at the end of this sentence is the sole reason of rendering of lost1 and lost2¹⁰.

If several labeled footnote definitions have the same equal label then texts from all these definitions are joined.¹¹

Footnotes

1. ^{^} Footnotes is a Fossil' extention of Markdown. Your other tools may have limited support for these.
2. ^{^} History of test/markdown-test3.md
3. ^{^} So that simple cases are processed even if a glitch happens for more tricky cases.
4. ^{^} And also tolerate whitespaces.
5. ^{^} But at a footnote's definition it should still be written within square brackets on a single line.
6. ^{^ a b} Each letter on the left is a back-reference to the place of use. Highlighted back-reference indicates a place from which navigation occurred¹².
7. ^{^} E.g. emphasis, and so on. BTW, this note may not have a backreference to the "stray".
8. ^{^} These may be usefull for adding small comments.
9. ^{^} For example due to a typo.
10. ^{^} This note was defined in the middle of the document. It references its previous¹³ and the forthcoming¹² siblings.
11. ^{^}
    • This came from the begining of the document.
    • And that came from the end of the document.
12. ^{^ a b c} This note was defined at the end of the document. It defines an inline note.¹⁴
13. ^{^} This note was defined at the begining of the document.
14. ^{^} This is inline note defined inside of a labeled note¹².
15. ^{^} Misreference
16. [^ i am strayed ]

    This should be presented **verbatim** (without any [markup][^])
    in the end of the footnotes.
    
    Default skin renders label in red bold font and the main text as gray.
    Other styling may also apply.

17. [^ another stray ]

    Just to verify the correctness of ordering and styling.