On 8/15/06, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Why? I can't think why. Of course, the software would have to automatically renumber them if references get deleted or moved around.
Can you elaborate on that? What exactly is your proposal, because anything that involves typing in numbers manually sounds like a terrible idea, at first glance.
That's another possibility, of course -- although I would still contend that something like [1], or even if it needs to be [ref:1], is much better (easier to read, easier to ignore, easier to type, easier to type without mistakes) than <ref name="ref1"/>.
Still a problem if you have to add the references to a references section (bad if you're doing section editing).
Steve