RefNotes plugin discussion

I have a localhost wiki with the latest (Angua) version installed. When I upgraded, I noticed that the mouseover tooltip popup is now longer displaying. I have also tested this with a clean install (not an upgrade install) and just this one plugin, and get the same result. If I uncheck “Use footnotes syntax”, then the tooltips work as expected, but also the named footnotes (((name>footnote text))) render as the name, and not the footnote itself. — AshtagonAshtagon

London, UK 2012/02/25 23:29

In Angua there were significant changes in JavaScript, some of which are apparently breaking backward compatibility. I guess that's the reason for missing popup.

The “Use footnotes syntax” check box behavior is correct. When you uncheck it ((text)) syntax is handled by DokuWiki core (not by the plugin), so you get properly working popup but loose all extra features provided by the plugin (e.g. named notes).

— Mykola OstrovskyyMykola Ostrovskyy
pan One

2012/02/26 16:35

I tried to use bug tracker but I have yet to figure out how I can specify the plug-in, and what type of defect it is. I post my request here, just in case.

Inline notes can not be formatted completely in the configuration editor. Superscript for example seems to be enabled permanently. It would be best if all formatting could be done in the configuration editor.

— Tammo 2010/04/05

See the rest of this discussion on the bug tracker. — Mykola Ostrovskyy 2010/04/18 17:18

I get the following error(s) after I simply edited a page that contains references. The page displayed without problems. The editing was restricted to editing text (not references). The error messages are

1. Warning: Cannot use a scalar value as an array in […]\DokuWikiStick\dokuwiki\lib\plugins\refnotes\syntax\references.php on line 242
2. Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at […]\DokuWikiStick\dokuwiki\lib\plugins\refnotes\syntax\references.php:242) in […]\DokuWikiStick\dokuwiki\inc\common.php on line 1472

After closing the page and reopening it, everything displays fine. Simply reloading does not work. This is a rather annoying problem. Otherwise this is a great plugin. Thank you for your work.

Tammo 2010/04/02

It might be fixed in the latest version. If the problem persists, please report it on the bug tracker. — Mykola Ostrovskyy 2010/04/05 20:22

This seems to have fixed it. Thank you.

Hi I'm just a little confused with how to get the reference section like you did in the screenshot. Could you give the code you used? Specifically I want to have a References section with all my citations just like Wikipedia does.

Also the ~~REFNOTES~~ doesn't seem to work (i.e. doesn't place the note block where I put this tag) unless it's specified with the namespace (i.e. ~~REFNOTES cite~~ works fine.)

– Marc 20-Jan-10

Just create a section and put ~~REFNOTES ns~~ in it:

===== References =====

~~REFNOTES ref~~

As mentioned in the documentation, ~~REFNOTES~~ without namespace specification renders notes from the root namespace. If all your notes are in cite namespace ~~REFNOTES~~ will not render anything. — Mykola Ostrovskyy 2010/01/20 08:22

Ok I understand it better now. I guess I was confused by the huge amount of documentation and jargon. Thanks! The plugin works perfectly. — Marc 2010/01/21

Could you give an example (ideally live) of linking to the reference database from an article?

I have…

• configured the reference database to use the :ref: namespace

• added bibliographic reference information in a card in :ref:longley2005 (using the namespace template)

• linked to this in an article [(:ref:longley2005)]

• nothing! no note text appears in the article

— Anonymous 2009/10/03 20:19

From what you describe this is exactly how it's supposed to work. Please create an issue on the bug tracker and I will try to fix it. — Mykola Ostrovskyy 2009/10/04 16:22

• RefNotes plugin
• RefNotes Syntax
• RefNotes Style Reference
• RefNotes Reference Database