"Thomas Dalton" thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote in message news:a4359dff0709210755s43a44530y9f2b4b69edeb25c9@mail.gmail.com...
Now if only I could up with a better name than "backlink=", but so far I've failed.
For what? Determining whether or not to display the backlink? How about "inline=false", meaning the <ref> tag isn't intended to describe an inline citation?
We seem to be agreed on what we want to do, it's just a matter of settling on a particular syntax now, and that isn't a big deal - all the suggestions given so far would work at least reasonably well.
I pefer the <xref> syntax mentioned earlier.
Basically, <ref> continues to work as it does now (with the added 'section' parameter), except that if an <xref> exists with the same name (and section, if specified) then the contents are treated as something to be appended to the reference (e.g. "p110-115").
<xref> is therefore the same as <ref> except that (a) it is not displayed on the page and (b) it changes the way any <ref> tags with matching name (and section) are displayed, as described above.
It also makes a clearer semantic distinction between the two uses.
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)