And what about the LST template combined to section tags? One example:

- Page 1 is http://ca.wikisource.org/wiki/P%C3%A0gina:Cansons_de_la_terra_%281866%29.djv... and contains some text with one full reference, also the beginnig of a second ref, and we can also see the transclusion of the following portion of the second ref (from Page 2, thanks to "Lst" template). We see the full second ref, but just proofread it at its "physical" page.

- Page 2 is http://ca.wikisource.org/wiki/P%C3%A0gina:Cansons_de_la_terra_%281866%29.djv... and contains 2 sections: some text with one reference, and the following portion of the reference (transcluded at Page 1).

So, the final transclusion uses the "Page" template with the "section" parameter when necessary: http://ca.wikisource.org/wiki/Cansons_de_la_terra_-_Volum_I/Introducci%C3%B2

It's a bit uncomfortable, but also in books made of paper!! Why do they break refs??

Regards, Aleator

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Message: 8 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:43:35 +0200 From: ThomasV thomasV1@gmx.de Subject: [Wikisource-l] (pas de sujet) To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, "discussion list for Wikisource, the free library" wikisource-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: 4C62C527.2000204@gmx.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

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