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Understood. It seems the footnote recipe could use some work -- adding
links shouldn't be all that difficult -- shouldn't be.... <br>
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IMHO, without digging into how the footnote recipe works, it still
would be smart to make a FootNote page that held all of the footnotes
for a project. This way folks could reference all of the footnotes
across various pages of large works in a single FootNote page. <br>
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([[FootNote#<MyFootnote>|(:include(<MyFootnote#>:)]]) might
almost do the #s dynamically adjusted in the FootNote page. This would
require folks to add [[#<MyFootnote#>]] then # on the following
line above the [[#MyFootnote]] anchor definition. Assuming the # (for
list #) was properly figured out (which is possible, but perhaps
doubtful), it might all work out. But it would be sort of a kludge,
if it works... <br>
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FYI, I know how important references can be. I did a couple years as
a grad student in molecular biology (ds RNA) and, during that time, I
was medical research librarian for two counties in CA pulling all of
the stuff for the John Mansfield asbestos case (both sides) and
Pritikin diet. <br>
<br>
Anyway, good luck. Seems like a valid project to sort out. <br>
<br>
Always, Fred C<br>
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Daniel Roesler wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I agree that anchors are easy to create and link to each other in a
page and between pages, but that only amounts to manually creating
citations using formatting. It isn't much of a problem when you a
short page with <10 references.
However, dynamically numbering the citations is the whole reason to
use Footnotes markup. When you have 50 different citations on a page,
that means [1]-[50] at the bottom. When someone comes in and wants to
add a paragraph and reference it (this is a wiki, after all), they
would have to manually change all the numbered citations after the one
they added. Even if they added the bottom reference in the correct
place of an numbered list on an included footers page, they would
still have to go through the actual page citations and change them
manually.
I agree that creating numbered citations manually is straightforward.
It just turns into a big pain when scaled to a research-paper-sized
level (100+ citations). Updating the recipe is the best long-term
solution, and I'm trying to figure out how.
Cheers,
Daniel Roesler
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:diafygi@gmail.com">diafygi@gmail.com</a>
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Dr Fred C <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:drfredc@verizon.net"><drfredc@verizon.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Excuse the previous premature email.
Daniel Roesler wrote:
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Dr Fred C <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:drfredc@verizon.net"><drfredc@verizon.net></a> wrote:
You might be making it more complicated than is necessary.
If all you are trying to do is add links to footers or headers, (not
footnotes like a bibliography), aka the first or last section of a wiki
page, you just create the GroupFooter (or GroupHeader) page for that group
by creating a GroupFooter page with whatever you want (including links) for
that group and you're done. For more info, edit a page in the group you
want a GroupFooter (or GroupHeader) to be in and click on "show help" then
"documentation index" for an explanation.
Actually, I'm looking to create a footnote like a bibliography. For
example, if I have a quote that I want to cite:
"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain." [1]
Then at the bottom of the page, create a footnote for the reference:
[1] My Fair Lady, Alan Jay Lerner.
This can be done easily with the markup in Footnotes,
FootnotesExtended, and MarkupExtensions (the [^citation goes here^]
tag). But if I want to add a link to the citation:
[1] [[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rain_in_Spain">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rain_in_Spain</a>|My Fair Lady]],
Alan Jay Lerner.
The link does not process. It simply shows up exactly like above
(without actually creating the link). I am looking to add link
processing to the footnotes markup. Anyone have any ideas?
In your 'footer' page, refer to a FootNotes page that has your footnotes
separated by anchors.
[[#RainSpain]]
[[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rain_in_Spain">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rain_in_Spain</a>
|My Fair Lady]]
[[#NextFootnote]]
------------
Then in the footer page, put
[1] (:include FootNotes#RainSpain:)
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This would display whatever you defined in the FootNotes#RainSpain anchor,
including text, links, pictures, etc. In this case, My Fair Lady would
display as a link to the url you defined.
I'm not sure, but in my fooling around, I discovered that bulleted
(unordered) lists don't display the include file properly indented. If you
happen to use # for numbered lists, to automate your foot notes, you might
run into the same issue. There might be a formating work around. It
could also be skin dependent.
Also, you might just try the include call to an anchor as noted above in the
footnote recipe you're using. Who knows, it might work.
--
Always, Dr Fred C
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:drfredc@drfredc.com">drfredc@drfredc.com</a></pre>
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Always, Dr Fred C
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:drfredc@drfredc.com">drfredc@drfredc.com</a></pre>
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