On 9/17/07, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com wrote:
I don't remember whether this causes any specific problems. The extension mechanism only gives you one tag at a time in the order they're presented in the article.
It definitely _used to_, but as others have pointed out, this is no longer the case. Yippy!
Do you just want the ability to make two citation-like lists per article whereas you can make one now? If that's the case wouldn't a system where you can make and flush an arbitrary number of lists be better?
Yes. However the mainline uses of "the lists at the bottom" will be references and "real" footnotes. Having a custom tag for the later doesn't seem too much to ask. I mean, you can make an entire web site using nothing more than SPAN and various class tags, yet most people prefer using P tags :-)
A variation of this has already been suggested and I believe there's an open bug for it. "category" or "section" is more agnostic to the format being cited than "page" although I guess all could be provided.
Do you happen to have a page link to this thread?
Again, a general solution to this problem is excellent, but adding tags for specific common cases would also be a good thing.
Not really. It really was a "worse is better" thing when I wrote it at the time and still is. Numerous people (yourself included) have pointed out various hairy bits and made some sound suggestions. But so far there haven't been any major upgrades to it.
Well then it's time to put my mad development skillz to the test: would you mind e-mailing me a copy of the current cite.php?
Maury