It would be great to have the Footnotes module integrated with the Bibliography module.

http://drupal.org/project/biblio

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hingo commented

Do you mean integrated
a) as in compatible, or
b) as in merged?

In any case, did you have any specific features or otherwise in mind?

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fm commented

I'm not an experienced programmer, so I have no idea whether the best solution would be to design a compatibility or to merge the modules.

The folks working on the Biblio module seem to be working on some sort of solution, but their focus is on citing reference material. As an end user, I need the ability to both cite reference material and to footnote tangential material that doesn't belong in the main text. Your module is great for the tangential asides, but a not at all optimized for the reference citation. The Biblio module looks like it's features optimize reference citation and ignore tangential asides.

My website deals with the humanities, principally history, so both reference citation and tangential asides are important. If I use both modules, I am concerned that it will produce two sets of footnotes, each with it's own numbered series.

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hingo commented

Ahh, ok. Thanks for the explanation. I understand your concern, it was the first that came to my mind too when looking at the Biblio module.

I think the simplest way to solve your problem would simply be to implement "tangential footnotes" as a part of the Biblio module. In other words, move Footnotes functionality into Biblio and if that is done Footnotes could cease to exist. Footnotes is quite a simple module, so making any kind of interoperability would probably be more complex than the filter itself.

On the other hand, for somebody that just wants the Footnotes functionality, Biblio is quite a lot heavier. If one wants to keep the modularity (always a good idea) a good split would be to have Footnotes provide the formatting of footnotes, and Biblio would use Footnotes for its own purposes.

In any case, Biblio is the bigger module (and more active developers it seems) I'll toss this idea to their issue tracker.

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hingo commented

See http://drupal.org/node/122535

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hingo commented

For the first time in a long time I had some hours to spend on a relaxing Drupal coding effort. As a result of this I have released Footnotes 5.x-1.2 which has a new function footnotes_is_footnotes_later(). This can be used by Biblio and other modules to verify that they can use Footnotes functionality. See updated project page for details: http://drupal.org/project/footnotes

PS. Our Japanese friends have provided a ja.po translation. Thanks!

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hingo commented
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