On 02/01/07, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We have two
competing MOS provisions because square-bracketing dates achieves
two unrelated effects: creating a link to the article on that date, and
formatting it according to user preferences. It's really time we separated the
syntax for this (assuming we can find a suitable solution and amenable
developers). See:
I'm working on something that might achieve this, pending performance
issues and testing; the whole sob saga is being documented on my
otherwise hideously-empty blog (
http://blog.anubite.co.uk) -- I'm
hoping to have it all done to fully-testable standards by the end of
the week.
Are you planning any way of having this be selective? I'm wondering
about the effect of "correcting" direct quotations, or the titles of
works cited as references...
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk