On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
Great work. Would it be possible to adapt this into a tool to separate the source of an article into: references and everything else?
Slightly different: would it be possible to have an editing interface where tags of the form "<ref name="">{{template}}</ref>" in the body are pulled out to a separate text box, leaving a token in the body text (e.g. <ref name="" />)? Separating the content of these tags would clean up the body when editing and the token left in the body would indicate that there is a tag here and that it has this name (see ref text box).
Technically, yes, should be possible (in the article namespace, there should be no "funny" nowiki constructs etc.).
But would that really help? I can see where it would be good to have a reference replaced with, say, some tiny red number that one can click on an that expands into the reference. But in a plain text editor, there'd still be the "empty" reference; I'd have to make up some ID for "unnamed" ones; then make some pseudo-text-table edit box somewhere.
I could try to whip up some "monitoring script" that constantly checks where your cursor is and somehow highlights the appropriate reference in a list box. Might be worth a shot.
That's another thing that came to mind. Currently, I strip "[[", "]]", and category prefix from categories and language links, and put them in separate textboxes. But, as these are always single lines (actually, key:value pairs), would it be more appropriate to change these into list boxes? Then I could add pretty buttons ("Delete category", "Add category", etc.). Of course, I could do that for the current textareas as well.
Cheers, Magnus