Indeed. It was a milestone compared to what went before, and enabled citing to become a norm or expectation (rather than an option) in practice not just theory.
But its some years on and we're in the #5 and useability... methynks we can do better still :)
FT2
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:31 PM, stevertigo stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
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
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