User talk:Xpctr8

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Again, welcome! — billinghurst sDrewth 03:54, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Nice job

Congratulations on your first completed work. Job well done. Please do add it to Template:New texts (drop the bottom link to the archive list) with an identifying edit summary, and that will add it to the front page. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:05, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

Commons deletion requests

Hello! Some of Your files have been nominated for deletion at Commons. I've removed the offending Google lead page from one of them and could remove it from the other too if asked. They still need some care here att Src, maybe by a bot. Edaen (talk) 13:13, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Table

Thank you very much for the table at Page:Forth Bridge (1890).djvu/17. I've only just seen it, but they are the only bit of this work I can't do myself, so any help is very much appreciated. Many thanks, Jamesx12345 (talk) 14:31, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

You are more than welcome. Building those tables is almost therapeutic for me after looking at pages of solid text in some of the other books I'm working on. If you can tag the problematic pages with {{missing table}} when you come across one, it will make it much easier for me to find those pages and knock them out. -Xpctr8 (talk) 14:37, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

Long footnote

Please accept my apologies for interfering with your progress on Index:Baylee's Method of Finding the Longitude.djvu.

I thought having started the long footnote starting on page 5 and extending through to page 7 it unfair not to complete at least that.

Having done so (and I look forward to how the final transclusion works out—I am hoping a simple {{smallrefs}} will present a usable result—but probably only an actual trial will establish this.)

I shall now lay off and let you return to normal activity. AuFCL (talk) 02:00, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

(small addition) For the record my (unsaved) test was:

<pages
 index="Baylee's Method of Finding the Longitude.djvu"
 from=7
 to=11
/>
{{smallrefs}}

—which presented the four footnotes in (what I considered was) a reasonable form and ordering. AuFCL (talk) 02:15, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

No appology necessary, help is always appreciated! I was pulled away right after starting to proofread, was happy to see some unexpected progress. Xpctr8 (talk) 15:06, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Ah, now I see what you mean...the footnote to the footnote on Page:Baylee's_Method_of_Finding_the_Longitude.djvu/11. I dealt with this on a prior work by using reference groups, calling the second level something like "subnote". See Memoirs_of_a_Trait_in_the_Character_of_George_III._of_these_United_Kingdoms/Chapter_13 for an example. (source: Page:Memoirs_of_a_Trait_in_the_Character_of_George_III.djvu/59 Xpctr8 (talk) 15:11, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Yes. The "easy" way of doing this is to let {{smallrefs}} just flatten everything—which currently appears to result in the primary footnotes appearing as "lower" footnote numbers, and the footnotes-to-footnotes being tacked on as "higher" footnote numbers.

If you so prefer it should be possible to group footnotes-to-footnotes alongside their immediate senior notes but this will be somewhat trickier as some of the "senior" notes span one or more pages…

I am of the view that here there is no necessity to resort to reference groups but if it is a technique you are happier using I am fine with that. AuFCL (talk) 18:18, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

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