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User:Uglemat/RefMan

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RefMan knows exactly where references are located in the main text at all times. ProveIt at this moment (April 2017; ProveIt is actively being developed) does not have the same grip on that information, so, for example, ProveIt can't deal with two identical
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tags. It will find them both, but if you try to edit the second one, it will change the first one. RefMan works very differently in that regard, it makes no such guesses. RefMan is like an all-seeing eye. If you get my
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tag, RefMan highlights which reference that is in RefMan's interface, making it easy to switch between editing the wikitext and using the RefMan interface.
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RefMan was developed for me, by me. It uses ES6 Javascript features, and makes some presumptions about the user's wikipedia settings. For the best result,
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ager), which allows you to drag and drop references into each other to merge them. You may also update and delete references. It is similar to
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to find and replace all the reuses of that reference? What you need may just be a script called
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templates and such. RefMan makes no attempt to understand, apart from finding the URLs.
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When you change the location of the cursor in the wikitext so that it is inside a
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After you have installed, there should appear a button with the totally cool
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in the editing toolbar, which toggles the RefMan interface.
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Have you ever found yourself wanting to merge references
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ProveIt tries to understand the actual content inside
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Index

User:Uglemat
ProveIt
the source
GNU GPLv3
Free software
these instructions
RefMan logo
Basic Usage
Drag to merge
Merging

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