[TW5] Tobias's appear vs. Mohammad's Refnotes

[Jon]

Hi,

I've been using Tobias's appear macro for some time -  for instance to include small retrospective notes attached to a piece of text which wasn't enough to justify it's own tiddler.

I've started using Mohammad's Refnotes and the immediate advantage is that the numbering within each tiddler is automatic whereas for the appear macro, you need to number each state differently.

I was planning to use Refnotes by default now, but was just wondering if there were other advantages of the appear macro that I wasn't aware of or circumstances where it might be more appropriate?

Regards

Jon

[Sycom]

Hi,

In my humble opinion they have very different purposes.
* Refnotes is a very nice implementation of footnotes, references and abbreviations. Like in classic academics publication. In a very semantic way.
* Appear allows you to enrich a text with optional or additional content. This content can also be formatted and will extend reader experience. It is a nice usage of onscreen reading capabilities for empowering publications.

So if your purpose is providing robust sources, references, explanations or a bibliography, refnotes is the good way to go.
But if you want to make your publication reactive to the reader, with optional rich text parts within your publication (sort of book) appear is your tool.

Use both ;-)

Regards

Sylvain
@sycom

[Jon]

Hi Sylvain,

Thanks, it's interesting to know how other people use these things. I suppose I was just comparing the footnote part of refnotes which I notice you can also format.

I think I need to play around with it for a bit longer to clarify the differences in how I use them.

Regards

Jon