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'13-01-24, 07:24   Developer Baltimore, MD, USA	Footnotes Make footnote numbers insertable by any member in any document or post. Actually, I think it would be best if members could just click anywhere on a document or post and a proper footnote number would be inserted automatically. When they click in the document, the words "Click to Add Footnote" should appear and, if they click on those words, the proper footnote number should appear where their cursor is located. And a text box should then open up and the member could enter a message. When finished, the member could click on "Save" or "Submit" and the footnote would appear in proper order at the bottom of the page. The owner should then be given the ability to rank the footnote as A, B, or C, where A means High Priority, B means Low Priority, and C means Confusing. The rank should then be made to appear immediately after the footnote number, without a space between them. The owner could also incorporate the footnote into his/her document. If the owner deletes the footnote at the bottom of the page, the footnote number should automatically delete from the document or post.
'13-01-24, 04:35   Developer Baltimore, MD, USA	Footnotes I like this idea. Currently you can, of course, add a comment and quote the relevant text in your comment, which is a standard method on forums. (In QDL, select the text you want to quote, and then click the "Add Sub-page" option in the Action Menu, and the selected text will appear in the editing box.) But what you're talking about would mean that when reading an article, you'd see what has spawned comments — when you're reading the article. ;) So you wouldn't have to read the article, and then read all of the comments, and go back and figure out what it all means. You'd see that there is a footnote, and if this is a section that interests you, you might want to read the footnote. For that matter, it would be cool if the text of the comment appeared in a on-mouse-hover pop-up. I normally stay away from these, as they get overused, and too many pop-ups can make mousing over a page feel like walking through a mine field. Maybe it should be a user option (in the global Settings) as to whether to display inserted comments as pop-ups, or as footnotes. Another approach would be to make the "inserted comment" designation a click link that would split the paragraph, and show the full comment right there. There isn't any way of detecting where in the document a user clicked, but there is a way of detecting a selecting. So instead of clicking in the document and then clicking a button, the user would select some text and click a button. Then the note marker would be inserted at the end of the selected text. I'm thinking that the footnote designation would be an asterisk, with a number beside it for which one it was. For example, *1 would be the first footnote, and *2 would be the second.
'13-01-24, 11:04   Developer Baltimore, MD, USA	Footnotes OK, the initial implementation of this is done. Here's the documentation. Quotes
'13-01-26, 20:15   Developer Baltimore, MD, USA	Footnotes Lloyd said: allow anyone to contribute anywhere in ranked footnotes Note to self: hook up better pop-up window to show the contents of the comments. Also need to hook up dynamic footnote numbering, instead of just showing the page ID.