I did play around a little over Easter after all, and made first steps adapting Thomas Elmiger’s TextStretch Footnotes: https://tid.li/tw5/hacks.html#TextStretch%20Footnotes%20Extracted%20as%20List
This, combined with templates to parse the BibTeX entries and CSS tweaks could go into the right direction, e.g. <<strex content:"{{bishop_2010||tLong}}" label:"{{bishop_2010||tShort}} 59" class:"hint">> could theoretically be made to display as (Bishop 2010: 59), with a popup note containing the full reference, in this case Bishop, Kyle William. *American Zombie Gothic: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Walking Dead in Popular Culture*. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2010. Print. In practice, this gets too complicated, though, when it comes to parsing the BibTeX entries in the templates tShort and tLong: I simply don’t know enough about manipulating field values (string variables) in TW or how to integrate possibly already existing style parsers. For example, the bibtex-author field for the above example has the value "Bishop, Kyle William" -- how do I even extract the last name from this? The bibtex-title field has the value "American {Zombie} {Gothic}: {The} {Rise} and {Fall} (and {Rise}) of the {Walking} {Dead} in {Popular} {Culture}" which enables title case -- but how do I get rid of the curly parentheses? I don’t seek answers for these questions right now, I just document here what kinds of problems need to be solved. I’ll put this on ice for now. If anyone is interested pursuing this, I promise eternal gratitude ... :) Best, Tyll -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/09dda430-0645-41cf-9feb-a3cd837744a9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.