Bryan Derksen wrote:
At 09:48 AM 12/12/2004 +1100, David Gerard wrote:
What we need is to encourage a culture of
including references. I'm
trying
to get myself better at this ... If we can get the reference syntax
implemented, that would help tremendously. (And I'm dreaming of it doing
fancy reference-indexing things.)
Once upon a time long long ago I remember putting in a feature request
for a simple "footnote" markup, along the lines of adding [[Note:blah
blah blah]] anywhere in the article and having it turn into a
superscripted number linking to an anchor for the text "blah blah
blah" down at the very bottom of the page. Something like that could
be suitable for references too, though it wouldn't be nice for making
multiple references to the same source scattered throughout an
article. Maybe a [[Ref:blah blah blah]] markup that automatically
combines identical "blah blah" text into the same reference at the
bottom?
<footnote>This would probably be better and more intuitive.</footnote>,
where the tag might be "footnote", "foot", "note", or
whatever. It also
fits in with the way that the software is designed to be extended.
-- Neil