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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.... 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. ([[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... 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. Anyway, good luck. Seems like a valid project to sort out. Always, Fred C Daniel Roesler wrote: 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Dr Fred C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Excuse the previous premature email. Daniel Roesler wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Dr Fred C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rain_in_Spain|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]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rain_in_Spain |My Fair Lady]] [[#NextFootnote]] ------------ Then in the footer page, put [1] (:include FootNotes#RainSpain:) ------- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Always, Dr Fred C [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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