Hallo ThomasV,
from my personal point of view, it seems to be a good idea.
If the all other aspects of the ref function are untouched and the other aspects of the ref functin don't change their behaviour it would be ok. (I think you know my special points about compatiibility :) :) )
I think if their is a need for a beta test wiki, i could find some testers within the german wikisource.
There are several pages where we had the same problem. typically we combined the complete ref on the first page manually and put some remarks on the other pages.
I hope that your extension will handle this even if the ref text ist spread over more than two pages. I could remember there was a least on project where the ref was spread over 3 or 4 pages. If you are interested I try to find it
Greetings
Joergens.mi
2010/8/11 ThomasV thomasV1@gmx.de
I would like to extend the syntax of the <ref> tag (Cite extension), in order to deal with footnotes that are spread on several transcluded pages. Since the Cite extension is widely used, I guess I better ask here first.
Here is an illustration of the problem :
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Robert_the_Bruce_and_the_struggle_for_Sco...
On the bottom of the scan you can see the second half of a footnote. That footnote begins at the previous page :
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Robert_the_Bruce_and_the_struggle_for_Sco...
Wikisourcers currently have no way to deal with these cases in a clean way. I have written a patch for this (the code is here : http://dpaste.org/QOMH/ ). This patch extends the "ref" syntax by adding a "follow" parameter, like this :
<ref follow="foo">bar</ref>
After two pages are transcluded, the wikitext passed to the parser will look like this :
blah blah blah blah blah blah<ref name="note1">beginning of note 1</ref> blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah<ref follow="note1">end of note</ref> blah blah blah
This wikitext is rendered as a single footnote, located in the text at the position of the parent <ref>. If the parent <ref> is not found (as is the case when you render only the second page), then the text inside the tag is rendered at the beginning of the list of references, with no number and no link.
does this make sense ?
Thomas
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