On 9/24/07, Liz Kim <lizkim270(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone know a way to manipulate the referencing
style in wiki?
We were _just_ talking about this in another thread. How would you
like it to work? There are a couple of different styles available in
HTML and I would _guess_ that it would be fairly easy to modify the
<references/> tag (and {{reflist}}) to allow you to select one of
these. But that would still be an enumerated list.
Another possibility is one I think might be more interesting, and
that's that the ref tags themselves have a "link=" or "tag=" where
you
could define a specific tag on a per-ref basis. For instance...
<ref name="Smith" link="Smi89"> a reference by Smith from 1989
</ref>
This would be very useful in matching technical documentation
referencing style. The only problem is it would require the editors to
be careful about putting in a "link=" for _every_ ref, because I'm not
sure a fallback would be easy, <references/> uses LI to generate the
list and that doesn't take kindly to inserting other things in the
middle of the list.
Maury