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Some more thoughts#

The great thing about Wikipedia references and one which I will try to reproduce whether or not creole makes it part of the spec is the ability to automatically list all the references at the end of the page.

Logically a reference placer ought to be something in the form:-

[Bugs and how to find them, Isonomia 2008|#]

Which on the face of it says: the text "bugs and ...." should be replaced by an empty internal reference or alternatively it could be thought to say "bugs and ...." should be replaced by a number (#). As this is what a reference is, I would suggest something like this.

There are then two additional problems:

  1. How to refer to the same reference a second time
  2. How to put a place holder for the list.

Now I suppose, if internal references are tied to headings as I suggested on the Intra Page Links then "=" is an unlikely symbol in the link (especially as it can't be used in the hyperlink).

So how about a naming convention:-

This is a some text about bugs[Bugs and how to find them, Isonomia 2008|#=Bugs]
...
This is more text with the same reference [#=Bugs] ...
and this is yet another reference where I want to have the same reference[#=Bugs]

Which just leaves the question of how to trigger the creation of the reference table. Here are some suggestions:

1. [#] 
2. [##]
The first probably is ambiguous because if [#ref] means a link to http://www.example.com/thispage.htm#ref then [#] really means: "make a hyperlink to http://www.example.com/thispage.htm# i.e. the top of the page.

The second means "make a hyperlink to #" or "make a link to number" which if that were to produce a list of references with back links to the numbers/references would be quite logical:-

[^] Bugs and how to find them, Isonomia 2008
[^] Bugs and how to find them, Isonomia 20008

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