Is there any way to do cross-references to notes? I mean, suppose I say something about Emile Durkheim[1] and want to include that little bracketed number to cross-reference to a footnote in the same post, how do I do this? I've been just using superscripted numbers (a little trick I learned from Fang Langford) and putting the notes at the bottom. But it would be nice if you could click on the note number and go to the note. I know you can do this in HTML somehow, but I don't know if it works in posts and I don't know how to do it either.
Just since I seem to be writing some very long, reference-heavy posts....
Thanks!
Chris Lehrich
There doesn't seem to be one in BBCode, but I did a quick Google on HTML footnotes and found this page (http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/footnotes.html). It's a little dense, but I think you can find what you need...I think.
Here's the HTML code visible as you would type it in. One for the reference
< a href="#note1" > [1]< /a >And one for the note itself
< a name="#note1" > [1] < /a > Here you can try it out.
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[1] Here's the explanation.
I believe you can also create a return loop with a bit of extra code, something like this:
< a href="#note2" > [2]< /a >< a name="place2" ></a>And for the note itself
< a name="note2" > [2] < /a > Explanatory text. < a href="#place2" >Return to Text< /a > That should give you:
[2]Other text
[2] Here's the explanation.
Return to Text.
(I hope this works.)
--M. J. Young
Yes, that definitely does work, but out of curiousity, where do you post topics long enough that need footnotes? That would be rather long... :)
Yes, well, take a look at some of my posts! In particular, see the RPG Theory thread "Not Lectures on Theory." You'll see why I asked.
Chris Lehrich
lol, that's true. You do need footnotes!