elements for basic academic articles

Hey,
these are our experiences from the communications we have had with
university people while working on Fidus Writer. I originally compiled this
list for the purpose of creating an editor, but it should also apply here.

These are the basic elements we have found people need. That is not to say
that some people din't want something more, or that this list is an
objective list of everything needed. It just means that these were points
mentioned again and again among the people we spoke to, which is largely
not-so-technical social sciences and humanities people in Europe and
North/South America.


**Document parts**

- Title (required)
- Subtitle (optional)
- Authors (optional)
- Abstract (optional)
- Keywords (optional)
- Article body (required)
- Bibliography (optional, auto generated if used)

**Block level elements for textual contents**

- P
- H1-H3
- Blockquote
- Code
- UL/OL

**Inline level styling**

- Strong
- Emphasized


**Inline text elements**

- Links (standard HTML links)
- Footnotes (Have to be displayed off to the side or below the text, and
need to be able to contain all the things that body elements can contain)

**Non-editable block level elements**

- Figures with following sub elements:
  - Figure content: an image, a math formula or an SVG (required)
  - A figure category (fx "Figure", "Photo", "Table") (optional)
  - An automatic figure number (optional)
  - A caption (optional)

 **Non-editable inline elements**

- Citations with the following fields (for humanities where citations may
look this way: "If a stone sinks in water, it is likely a heavy (See for
example: Newton 1687, pages 1-5)."):
  - reference source ID (fx a specific book, a small database in a client
side database keeps track of all the different sources the user may use)
  - reference pointer (fx a page number)
  - type of reference pointer( fx "page", "pages", "paragraph")
  - text before citation (fx "See for example:", "Also mentioned in:", etc.)
- Inline math formulas
- References to figures in the same text (fx: "See figure 4" . where the
"4" has to be updated when the figure numbering changes).