So: I have to annotate some texts from the 19th century. The final product must be an HTML-only webpage. I have two major issues:

1. I'm working through the texts from start to finish, i.e, when I come across a word/proper noun/etc to annotate, I do so and move on (by annotate I mean link to a footnote/web resource). For every word/text that I annotate, I insert an anchor (to linkback) and a link to the resource.

The problem with this: updating the anchors later on will be a major headache, because I'm positive I'll come up with many more links as I go through multiple readings of the texts.

Is there a simpler solution?

2. Is there a resource for converting various 19th century European/American/African currencies to current inflation-adjusted values?

I've seen some of the annotation software out there, and it isn't what I want.

I'm on Ubuntu using Mozilla Composer, could use Windows if needed.

To answer your question, "does anyone mind," the answer is yes. Does everyone mind? probably not.

Is this a homework project? AskMefites are wary of answering questions that sound like homework.

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You could use Movable Type to generate static HTML files, and use the Bö plugin (with Markdown) to manage the footnotes.

I would think mousovers would be an easier way to add them, instead of footnotes. Or a popup box.

thx DA!

hmm, kirkaracha's plugin sure looks good.

TPS: no, this ain't homework.