On 18/09/2007, Maury Markowitz <maury.markowitz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 9/18/07, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
My suggestion is just for how to include the info
in the wikitext -
how its displayed when parsed is a completely separate issue.
Oh I know, I'm just thinking that we might want to "formalize" the
information in order to make rendering easy. For instance, if you put
text into the body of the ref tag, as you note, the parser would
likely have a hard time deciding how to render it -- is it just some
text that should be placed after the ref, or a page number that
becomes part of it? I'm guessing it would need more meta-information
in order to decide. That's, of course, assuming we want it to!
There is an argument for including more semantic information in the
reference, but the argument against it is that it restricts how people
can use the feature. I think just adding text to the end of the
reference would work fine, and could be used for far more than just
page numbers.