Footnotez in quotez (is weird).
I suppose this is sort of a feature discussion. Anyway, the behaviour of footnotes in quotes is a bit odd, Really it would make more intuitive sense if the footnote for a quote was contained within the quote itself. At the moment it gets visually disconnected from the quote, and tacked on after the the current post. This doesn't look or feel right.
Re: Footnotez in quotez (is weird).
Reply #1 –
Agreed. In fact, I did mention it before, elsewhere, but forgot to open it in its own topic later. This should be tracked and resolved.
Regarding this full quote, is it possible that Elk just check its source from its link and append it as part of the post in its own container, so that it won't be messing the reply's own footnote?
Partial quote should be edited though.
Re: Footnotez in quotez (is weird).
Reply #2 –
Yes I think partial quotes would be the tricky thing. I'm not sure how much trouble it would be to get this working properly with all possible combinations. I just thought it was worth mentioning in case a good solution is possible.
Re: Footnotez in quotez (is weird).
Reply #3 –
I tend to prefer footnotes at the end of the message, because the quote is itself part of the message.
If you are reading a book, and a piece is quoted from another book and that quote has a footnote, that footnote, AFAIK, is not added at the end of the quote, but at the end of the page.
Re: Footnotez in quotez (is weird).
Reply #8 –
Or just leave its number and link but do remove it from the reply's quote?
Re: Footnotez in quotez (is weird).
Reply #9 –
What if the quote was from an external source?
What if the quote was from the same topic, but a different page?
What if the quote lost the reference to the previous message?
What if...
The only solution would be to check each and every footnote against the whole bunch of messages in the database to see if it was used before and where. Basically impossible unless you are either google, facebook, github or some other big player.
Re: Footnotez in quotez (is weird).
Reply #12 –
Right now we have the footnotes done as named links, so clicking on the note number jumps to the footnote and the return icon in the footnote takes you back to the message. Just wondering if we should also have them shown on hover over which would allow you to read the footnote in a somewhat less obtrusive way.
Re: Footnotez in quotez (is weird).
Reply #13 –
I think both might be a bit bloatish. Could be done as an inline spoiler I suppose.