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Semantically, it seems like using the <ref> and {{cite}} markup found
in Wikipedia would be a better fit, although it won't preserve the
appearance of the PDF document.
- --Bob.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite
On 2017-11-11 09:35 AM, Emanuele D'Arrigo wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I'm in the process of manually converting a number PDF documents to
> wiki pages. The work is mostly straightforward copy&paste.
>
> There is one feature of the original PDFs document however that is
> hard to convert.
>
> To simplify the issue, imagine that document has a two columns
> layout, one column quite wide and the other, much narrower (say
> 85%/15%) width.
>
> The wide column is full of normal text with some structure (i.e.
> sections, paragraph and lists). The narrow column has small sparse
> notes (i.e. dates and people's names) that relate to specific lines
> of text in the wide column: in the PDF a note is at the same height
> as the line of text it relates to.
>
> Obviously, in a static PDF this works, but in a browser window the
> text in the wide column will reflow depending on the size and ratio
> of the window.
>
> Therefore, how do I ensure that the note in the small column
> remains at the same level with the portion of text it relates to?
> Effectively, how do I anchor the y-position of an element in a
> column of a wikitable to the y-position of, say, a specific word in
> another column of the same wiki table?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
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