Footnotes behave oddly when no empty newline before

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Testing version:
IPadOS 2.0.5

What were you doing:
Entering footnotes on text directly above the footnote

What feature did you use:
Footnotes

What happened:
If the footnotes existing were 1-5, then when entering a new footnote (6) above the footnote block directly, all footnotes change their numbering to follow on from 6 (I think it’s getting mixed in with “existing number lists” or something similar)

What did you expect to happen:
Footnotes continue to number as per normal

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While not ideal, this is expected behavior. Footnote definitions mimics the syntax of reference link definitions from the CommonMark standard, and they are not allowed to interrupt a paragraph. So it you have a paragraph above, you need at least one blank line in between before the definitions start.

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