[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-l] that awful <ref> syntax

[Thomas Dalton]

On 13/12/2007, Ral315 <en.ral315 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2007 2:20 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > That's one step, from the body of the text to the reference. This is
> > two - from the body of the text to the footnote and from there to the
> > reference.
>
>
> Do most print works reference fully on each occurrence?  I would guess that
> many also use a shorthand form for subsequent citations, particularly those
> with hundreds of references.

Which is why it's one step, not zero steps...