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?