On 9/21/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
A difference in tag would only be useful for someone reading the wikitext
But that's exactly what this thread is about...
With enough work you can abuse the existing ref system to do all of the things we're talking about here. But it's simply too much work. I know I would use more CITEs, in particular, if they weren't so hard to use.
<ref section="page 22-23" backlink="3a" /> seems pretty damb handy.
Why?
For all the same reasons as any of the ideas here... flexibility in order to allow editors to do things we might not imagine in this thread.
It's more likely they would want to change the notation of the reference instead, ie, "Bab97" instead of "1", but I don't see any reason to deliberately introduce inflexibility. Also the idea of introducing a param with only one possible value makes my stomach grumble.
Maury