diff -r 783eff3047bc -r ad92d11d59b8 bookloupe/bookloupe.c
--- a/bookloupe/bookloupe.c	Sat Oct 05 21:37:31 2013 +0100
+++ b/bookloupe/bookloupe.c	Tue Oct 15 09:16:04 2013 +0100
@@ -2951,7 +2951,24 @@
     for (;!g_unichar_isdigit(g_utf8_get_char(*ptr)) &&
       !g_unichar_isalpha(g_utf8_get_char(*ptr)) &&
       **ptr;*ptr=g_utf8_next_char(*ptr))
-	;
+    {
+	/* Handle exceptions for footnote markers like [1] */
+	if (g_utf8_get_char(*ptr)=='[')
+	{
+	    g_string_append_c(word,'[');
+	    s=g_utf8_next_char(*ptr);
+	    for (;g_unichar_isdigit(g_utf8_get_char(s));s=g_utf8_next_char(s))
+		g_string_append_unichar(word,g_utf8_get_char(s));
+	    if (g_utf8_get_char(s)==']')
+	    {
+		g_string_append_c(word,']');
+		*ptr=g_utf8_next_char(s);
+		return g_string_free(word,FALSE);
+	    }
+	    else
+		g_string_truncate(word,0);
+	}
+    }
     /*
      * Use a look-ahead to handle exceptions for numbers like 1,000 and 1.35.
      * Especially yucky is the case of L1,000