Backlinks

[edwintorok]

A nice addition would be a backlink after each footnote, see the bottom of this document for example. This would need a few things:

• references to paragraphs
• inline command to generate backlinks inside a referenced block, supported for: inline footnotes (easier, just 1 backlink), regular footnotes (multiple backlinks), citations (multiple backlinks)
• inline footnotes, \note command (equivalent of a note block and \see command with automatic naming)

Of course it should be user controllable, perhaps via a parameter for \notes and \bibliography.

This could also be used to generate a simple index (LaTeX has \index and \printindex), by showing all labels and their backlinks, perhaps by a command \index.

[darioteixeira]

That's a fair request. Let's keep this ticket open...

[edwintorok]

I was looking whether I could implement this as an extension, and although I could generate references to footnotes with See, I cannot generate the note blocks themselves. notes is a BatDynArray that doesn't seem to be accessible to extensions. Please provide a way for (block) extensions to generate notes.

[darioteixeira]

Yes, the current extension mechanism does not provide access to "compiled" elements such as notes. However, as I've mentioned on ticket #7, I'm considering a different approach which could allow for extensions to implement what you need.