On 11/03/11 7:36 PM, Alan Liefting wrote: > On 3/11/2011 10:45 p.m., Ray Saintonge wrote: >> On 11/02/11 3:38 PM, Ian Woollard wrote: >>> I'm thinking that the problem here is inline references. An inline >>> reference is one where you plonk the reference in the middle of the text >>> <ref>lots of stuff</ref>. The problem with those is that they break up the >>> flow of the text, making it very hard to maintain. >> Inline references are a problem even for newbies wanting to make a >> simple correction. In a reference rich article the error may be easily >> visible in article space, but becomes difficult to find in edit space >> when one needs to wade through a lot of references. > WikEd has syntax highlighting to make editing easier. > That just introduces another geekish piece of software. In a random page in need of help there is no link to this software, If I want to fix an obvious typo with one or two keystrokes I don't want to spend an hour tracking down and learning some new tool. That just makes the cure more onerous than leaving the error in place. Non-technical people are quickly turned off by the fairy world of additional software.
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