Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Remember the
dot
<rememberthedot(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I've found that neatly spacing references does wonders for keeping
wikitext
readable.
For example:
Yes, but then the text is no less impossible to simply read through if
you don't care about the refs and you're just editing the text,
especially if you[] have cases[] where the refs are sprinkled
liberally[][].
As a reader like the end result of the refs being placed as close to
the fact that support as possible, but it makes the paragraph hell to
edit.
I think, rather than using JS to hide refs in page text, defining them
all in the references section, or at least at the end of the section
they're used in for larger articles, using some sort of new option in
the ref tags to make them not display - <ref name="Foo"
nodisplay="1">...</ref> - or something, then referring to them inline
with only the short form - <ref name="Foo"/> - would be better. A lot of
refs on one sentence would still be a little messy, but much better. Of
course, the problem would be migrating all the existing refs to such a
system, the benefit to just hiding them is that it'll work with
everything as it is now.
this has already been done, but not yet implemented in the Cite-code.
We'd like to see this (or something similar) implemented as soon as
possible.. :)
/Stig