Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130519053621

I'm copying over a bit of conversation that started on Thread:130977 but was really getting that thread off track.

The issue at hand is the use of reference tags for in-universe citations.

"I started doing [refs] in-line the way other in-universe articles do, but when you include a citation in the middle of a paragraph it gets very difficult to read. And when you have multiple citations in each paragraph and occasionally even citations in the middle of sentences, it gets really confusing really fast.

And yeah, you can just stick all the citations at the end of the paragraph but it gets hard to tell which citation is for what, which makes fact checking something you think is off very hard.

Also, citations inline made it so that the emphasis of italicising a word within a sentence was completely lost, because there the sentence was surrounded by italics on all sides. There's an example in coffee I think.

I considered doing a mix of in-line and ref tags and only using in-line for cases in the middle of paras and the like but just went ahead and did the whole page that way. Is this a problem? Because I've noticed that I often rewrite things to place in-line tags at the end of paragraphs, often splitting up information and phrasing sentences in ways I otherwise wouldn't."

You can see articles tea, wine and coffee for examples. 