On 12/9/06, stvrtg stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone else bothered by how much these clutter up and interefere with editing text?
Me. The idea that one puts a reference near the referred-to text is good in principle - in that it makes it harder to lose the reference - but the interaction of that with the 'cite blah' templates is poor. They're bulky, and that causes a problem. The flow of the text is lost, making editing less natural.
The problem with putting the actual reference text in the references section and referring to it by name in the text is that the two are then separated and easier to break. However, I'd prefer that to the ugly mess the current <ref> tags make of the running text.
-Matt