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The full format is {{RNBio lkpl|entry name|display text}} e.g. {{RNBio lkpl|Abbott, Jonas Archer|Commander Jonas Archer Abbott}}
- outside the work, for an article with book detail {{RNBio link}}
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- Spaces before stops are removed so 'officer ;' becomes 'officer;'.
- This work has many very long and complex footnotes; including some footnotes with footnotes. While there is a workaround to handle these I am not clear that it will work with multi-page footnotes so have chosen to embed them directly in the text of the parent footnote instead in square brackets “Main footnote text . . .[footnote: text of secondary footnote] . . .”
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