Merge pull request #65 from startling/backlinks

New footnotes configuration option: BACKLINK_TEXT

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/markdown/extensions/footnotes.py b/markdown/extensions/footnotes.py
index d05edda..2f3ceac 100644
--- a/markdown/extensions/footnotes.py
+++ b/markdown/extensions/footnotes.py
@@ -43,7 +43,11 @@ class FootnoteExtension(markdown.Extension):
                        'UNIQUE_IDS':
                        [False,
                         "Avoid name collisions across "
-                        "multiple calls to reset()."]}
+                        "multiple calls to reset()."],
+                       "BACKLINK_TEXT":
+                       ["↩",
+                        "The text string that links from the footnote to the reader's place."]
+                       }
 
         for key, value in configs:
             self.config[key][0] = value
@@ -282,9 +286,11 @@ class FootnoteTreeprocessor(markdown.treeprocessors.Treeprocessor):
 
 class FootnotePostprocessor(markdown.postprocessors.Postprocessor):
     """ Replace placeholders with html entities. """
+    def __init__(self, footnotes):
+        self.footnotes = footnotes
 
     def run(self, text):
-        text = text.replace(FN_BACKLINK_TEXT, "↩")
+        text = text.replace(FN_BACKLINK_TEXT, self.footnotes.getConfig("BACKLINK_TEXT"))
         return text.replace(NBSP_PLACEHOLDER, " ")
 
 def makeExtension(configs=[]):