On 9/21/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The idea requires an additional tag containing the
information common
to each citation.
<ref name="name">pp 1-7</ref>
<ref name="name">pp 8-14</ref>
<xref name="name">The Best Book Ever Written</xref>
This would produce two lines in the references section:
The Best Book Ever Written pp 1-7
The Best Book Ever Written pp 8-14
It might be better not to use <ref> and come up with a new name in
order to keep backwards compatibility.
I think I'm sliding to the "nay" side on this one again.
If we simply use <REF> and demand that only one of them have the body
(which is true today), then we eliminate the need for another tag.
Editors could take advantage of the feature simply by adding
"section=" (or whatever) params to existing REFs with no other
changes. And there's nothing saying you couldn't add one of these
params to the "body ref" either.
Maury