One of the most common complaints about the <ref>...</ref> feature is how it disrupts the line spacing. Have we tried not raising the reference numbers at all? It seems to me that judicious use of font size and color would work ok even when the reference numbers were sitting on the basline. Then the line-spacing problem would go away.
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