Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
That is a visual convention, so I'd relegate it to CSS and just style
them as spans (or even better, mark them up as links that jump to the
reference, and style the links).
They don't lose any meaning, in my opinion, if - when CSS is
off/unavailable - they're not visually displayed as SUP.
P
You're right, they don't lose any meaning - but they do look a LOT
better and easier to read when 'supped' (that, of course is why
superscript came into being :-) ) Remember that a superscripted
reference is a two way reference : you may want to see what Joe Bloggs
has contributed to the discussion, so you look him up via the references
(at the end of the doc) and, armed with his ref numbers, you look
through the body of the text to see what the relevance of what's being
said is, in context.
I did consider doing this:
.ref{
font-size: 70%;
font-weight: bold;
margin-left: 1px;
position : relative;
bottom : 5px;
}
and then
<p>This is a reference<span class="ref">[5]</span> and the sentence
carries on . . .</p>
but, as I said, I considered this to be overkill. Pragmatism again?
Bob
www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
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