Fellow Monks,

I have just printed a node with a couple of links in it. These links turn up, as usual, as blue, underlined text. I was thinking that there's room for improvement there, after all, you can't click on a piece of paper.

What I propose is, that in print view, the addresses of links are added to the end of the printed node as footnotes.

To give you an example:

...blah blah, as can be seen on this site, is really quite blah blah rhubarb...

would be printed as:

...blah blah, as can be seen on this site¹ is really quite blah blah rhubarb...
.
.
.
End of article

Links:

1. http://www.perlmonks.org

I think it's time I grabbed the source of Everthing and start looking around... Unless somebody has violently allergic reactions to my suggestion.

Let me know what you think

BrotherAde

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