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`[footnote]Another cultural practice of shaming is described by Jon Elster in Strong Feelings, pp. 100–101: In nineteenth-century Corsica, contempt for the person who failed to abide by the norms of vengeance was expressed by the rimbecco, “a deliberate reminder of the unfulfilled revenge. It could take the form of a song, a remark, a gesture or a look, and be delivered by relatives, neighbors or strangers, men or women. It was a direct accusation of cowardice and dereliction”: [. . .] In Corsica, the man who has not avenged his father, an assassinated relative or a deceived daughter can no longer appear in public. Nobody speaks to him; he has to remain silent. If he raises his voice to emit an opinion, people will say to him: “avenge yourself first, and then you can state your point of view.” The rimbecco can occur at any moment and under any guise. It does not even need to express itself in words: an ironical smile, a contemptuous turning away of the head, a certain condescending look – there are a thousand small insults which at all times of the day remind the unhappy victim of how much he has fallen in the esteem of his compatriots. [Quoted from S. Wilson, Feuding, Conflict, and Banditry in Nineteenth-Century Corsica (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), p. 203.]
Elster interprets this practice as inducing shame in its victim by expressing the community’s contempt. The practice does express contempt, of course, but it also conveys the victim’s loss of credentials as a self-presenter. His every attempt to present himself to others is met with a reminder that their knowledge of his situation has rendered them deaf and blind to anything else about him.[/footnote]`
Any tips on how I can delineate both blockquotes and new paras inside the footnote tags?
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### Author:  [@SteelWagstaff](https://pressbooks.community/u/SteelWagstaff)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2019, 3:10pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/blockquotes-multiple-paragraphs-in-footnotes/1167/2 "2019-11-13T15:10:50Z")
Hi Amanda, great question. This is a known issue – it has to do with a shortcode (blockquote) within another shortcode (footnote). We’re working on nested shortcodes right now (see [Shortcode within shortcode testing for 3 specific situations · Issue #1826 · pressbooks/pressbooks · GitHub](https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/issues/1826)) and hope to have some ideas about how this might work in the near future. We’ll keep you posted!
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### Author:  [@akarby](https://pressbooks.community/u/akarby)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/blockquotes-multiple-paragraphs-in-footnotes/1167/3 "2019-11-13T15:44:00Z")
Thanks so much @SteelWagstaff! Do you happen to know of any sneaky workarounds that might help, even just mimicking the look of a blockquote? We’d like to get this book finished within the month, if possible.
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### Author:  [@SteelWagstaff](https://pressbooks.community/u/SteelWagstaff)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/blockquotes-multiple-paragraphs-in-footnotes/1167/4 "2019-11-13T15:55:25Z")
Your best bet is probably mailing premium support on this one, Amanda. We monitor this open source forum and try to be helpful, but you’ll get quicker responses from that email account as an EDU client.
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Meggitt](https://pressbooks.community/u/Justin_Meggitt)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2023, 6:07am UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/blockquotes-multiple-paragraphs-in-footnotes/1167/5 "2023-07-12T06:07:05Z")
Was a solution implemented for this (quotes inside footnotes and paragraphs inside footnotes)? I cannot find any way of doing this but need to be able to do this for a traditional monograph, like the original poster.
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### Author:  [@SteelWagstaff](https://pressbooks.community/u/SteelWagstaff)
#### Post date: [July 13, 2023, 7:24pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/blockquotes-multiple-paragraphs-in-footnotes/1167/6 "2023-07-13T19:24:19Z")
Hi Justin – to clarify, you’re trying to put block quotes and paragraphs within a footnote? What happens when you attempt to do this now in Pressbooks? Screenshots and link to sample book will be most helpful for folks in the forum trying to help you come up with a solution.
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Meggitt](https://pressbooks.community/u/Justin_Meggitt)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/blockquotes-multiple-paragraphs-in-footnotes/1167/7 "2023-07-14T17:16:57Z")
Thanks. I’ve actually sorted out the blockquotes in footnotes - I just needed to be more careful about formating material that I’d cut and pasted from ODT.
However, I still cannot work out how to have more than one paragraph in a footnote. Some of my footnotes are very long and need two or three paragraphs for ease of comprehension. I tried to break a footnote into two paragraphs by using return. Return works in the main text to create a new paragraph but clearly does nothing in a footnote.
Here is the visual version, after I have put in the break, so the new paragraph would start: Apuleius’ novel …
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Meggitt](https://pressbooks.community/u/Justin_Meggitt)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/blockquotes-multiple-paragraphs-in-footnotes/1167/8 "2023-07-14T17:17:38Z")
Here is the text version:
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Meggitt](https://pressbooks.community/u/Justin_Meggitt)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2023, 5:18pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/blockquotes-multiple-paragraphs-in-footnotes/1167/9 "2023-07-14T17:18:13Z")
Here is what the export pdf looks like. As you can see, no new paragraph.
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### Author:  [@SteelWagstaff](https://pressbooks.community/u/SteelWagstaff)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2023, 10:40pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/blockquotes-multiple-paragraphs-in-footnotes/1167/10 "2023-07-14T22:40:45Z")
Hi @Justin_Meggitt – yes I see. I thought we implemented a fix for this in 2020: [Release Pressbooks 5.15.3 · pressbooks/pressbooks · GitHub](https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks/releases/tag/5.15.3) but it appears not to be working as expected here. Perhaps I can check with our lead developer next week after he returns from vacation.
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Meggitt](https://pressbooks.community/u/Justin_Meggitt)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2023, 9:08am UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/blockquotes-multiple-paragraphs-in-footnotes/1167/11 "2023-07-15T09:08:53Z")
Thanks. Much appreciated. I’m using the theme Graham, if that makes any difference.
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Meggitt](https://pressbooks.community/u/Justin_Meggitt)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2023, 9:39pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/blockquotes-multiple-paragraphs-in-footnotes/1167/12 "2023-07-24T21:39:20Z")
Any news on this yet? Thanks.