Snippets are very cool! I’ve been using them for some repeated Markdown I need.
But I don’t think they help here.
What I have is for each article a set of up to a few dozen citations, where I have a link in the text going to, say “#1”, and then at the bottom in the references part, a number, a link, a citation, and a quote–something like:
[1] The Neurology of Narrative
Kay Young, Jeffrey L. Saver
From: SubStance Issue 94/95 (Volume 30, Number 1&2), 2001 pp. 72-84
“Abstract
Narrative is the inescapable frame of human existence. Thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Barthes, and Bruner have recognized the centrality of narrative in human cognition, but have scanted its neurobiologic underpinning. Recent advances in cognitive neuroscience suggest a regionally distributed neural network mediates the creation of narrative in the human central nervous system. Fundamental network components include: 1) the amygdalo-hippocampal system, responsible for initial encoding of episodic and autobiographical memories, 2) the left peri-Sylvian region, where language is formulated, and 3) the frontal cortices and their subcortical connections, where individuals and entities are organized into real and fictional temporal narrative frames. We describe four types of dysnarrativia, states of narrative impairment experienced by individuals with discrete focal damage in different regions of this neural network subserving human self-narrative. Patients with these syndromes illustrate the inseparable connection between narrativity and personhood. Brain- injured individuals may lose their linguistic or visuospatial competencies and still be recognizably the same persons. Individuals who have lost the ability to construct narrative, however, have lost their selves.”
But the code that makes the link in the text go to the citation anchor at the bottom is broken–None of them survived the migration.
What I’ve been doing is manually making a new Markdown block to replace the first line of each citation like this:
<a name=1>[1]</a>[The Neurology of Narrative](http://mtw160-198.ippl.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/substance/v030/30.1young.pdf)
That works, but it’s kind of a pain, because I have to manually create a new block, and grab the link text and the link url separately to cut and paste into the new block. I have already made a snippet for the anchor code to modify, but it only helps a little.
And it doesn’t help to make a snippet of the whole thing because (a) I almost never use the same citation+quote twice across the site, and (b) making it into a snippet still doesn’t allow me to edit the section as Markdown.
I’m stuck in some kind of hidden Markdown in every article, where I am looking at the rendered Markdown, but can’t actually edit it as Markdown even though it obviously is. That’s really the crux of the issue!
