On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Surreptitiousness
<surreptitious.wikipedian(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
[[Wikipedia:Footnote3]] explains it all. I can't
work out the
difference, except maybe it took Dragons flight a lot of work to give us
what we already had?
Interesting. I'm not sure why we tolerate so many incompatible
systems. Let's just render them all obsolete except the one true one.
I do notice this crucial limitation in the {{ref}} system:
"The {{note}}'s in the Notes section must occur in the same order as
the corresponding {{ref}}'s in the main text. This is an important
issue to consider when adding more footnotes later."
In other words, this{{ref|foo}} doesn't{{ref|bar}} work:
# {{note|bar}} A bar
# {{note|foo}} A foo
The {{ref}}/{{note}} system in general looks like a hack. You have to
manually create the bullet points and carefully preserve order. And
trying to create multiple references to the same footnote looks like a
major pain in the arse. We should kill this. It's particularly
confusing that <ref> and {{r}} refer to one system, but {{ref}} is
another system. Who can remember that??
Steve