On 18/09/2007, Maury Markowitz maury.markowitz@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/18/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
My suggestion is just for how to include the info in the wikitext - how its displayed when parsed is a completely separate issue.
Oh I know, I'm just thinking that we might want to "formalize" the information in order to make rendering easy. For instance, if you put text into the body of the ref tag, as you note, the parser would likely have a hard time deciding how to render it -- is it just some text that should be placed after the ref, or a page number that becomes part of it? I'm guessing it would need more meta-information in order to decide. That's, of course, assuming we want it to!
There is an argument for including more semantic information in the reference, but the argument against it is that it restricts how people can use the feature. I think just adding text to the end of the reference would work fine, and could be used for far more than just page numbers.