FT2ft2.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Actually is there a reason why refs couldn't have a separate section? The main disadvantage would be technical - revision data held in an extra field.
IIRC Greg Maxwell mentioned something about this a couple years ago. He acknowledged the issue of diminished edit-mode readability was valid, but there was a technical and practical issue with putting refs in a separate section. At the time, as his <refs> setup was new and quite an improvement over the previous, so there wasn't much interest in improving its inferface issues.
-Stevertigo