Hi Jon / Jed,
I believe there are two things being intermingled here:
1. footnotes
2. citations
While there are times we may want to use both together, they're two quite
independent things.
-
*footnotes *create content within a document — in our case each tiddler is
basically a "document" — and that content — while contained in the
document (but otherwise bloating the main document while reading) — is only
displayed at the very end of it (or when clicked => this part is actually
what the tobibeer/appear <http://tobibeer.github.io/tw5-plugins/#appear> is
indeed intended to be used for, but not quite for editing footnotes [yet]
...which would only work if each footnote was actually a tiddler or at
least a "text reference" of its own rather than some part of the tiddler
we're looking at
-
*citations *allow to reference sources, ideally indeed contained in a
global dictionary of sources / references, not one per tiddler / document
=> there's only one bookshelf to refer to
=> you always want to use the same notation to refer to the same
publication / reference
So, when it comes to adding either of those to the document, we're doing
two quite independent things:
- *footnotes*
define the content that will be taken out of context
and displayed elsewhere (at the bottom)
=> merely referenced at the place where inserted (perhaps displayable
via tooltip / popup)
- *citations*
ideally, we want to select from a list of predefined sources (perhaps
from a dictionary) and have the reference inserted
=> can be anywhere in the document, including footnotes
=> may link to some other tiddler or an external uri directly
Best wishes,
Tobias.
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