Just three months!
I think it was last december that I foolishly said it should only take about three months to properly implement footnotes, with endnotes being just a tiny additional effort. I was right, in a way. Knowing what I know now it would take perhaps even less time. I just didn’t forsee the extra months it would take to force the Cocoa text system, basically a black box that wants to just layout an entire document of simple text, to implement the simple algorithm that we wanted. Then, when it seemed done and worked for all of our test documents, a few of our beta testers provided to us test documents that proved truly nightmarish to debug. I’d like to say we got them all. I bet that a few of our users will try things that we never even thought of and it will be back to the debugger again. Just know that we’ll listen to your feedback and any issues that come up will be handled as fast as we can.