docs: what citefind will not take for a work

Three refusals named on the page: a note's own remark, a siglum, and the
navigation strip a PDF reader leaves behind. Says where the line is drawn —
at the guess rather than at the title, so an entry that marked its own title
is taken at its word.
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**Take a translator's note for a reference.** An em dash and a role at the
end — `— Ed.`, `— Tr.` — is how a translator signs a note of their own.
**Take a note's own remark for a work.** `The Commentator seems to have
based himself principally on the Bible` and `Dewey remarks that we experience
most things as temporal` are what a page of endnotes is mostly made of. A
title read off markup is taken at its word; a title guessed at by cutting the
entry at its sentence stops is not, and where the entry gave up nothing else
— no author, no identifier, no container — that guess has to be a noun
phrase. A finite verb is what separates the remark from `Quaestiones
Parisienses`.
**Take a siglum for a work.** `H, 272`, `FR,120-122`, `GNO`. The key that
expands the abbreviation is a page of its own that the entry does not carry,
and the heading the line sits under is not its title either.
**Take the reader's furniture for a reference.** `572 next page > < previous
page`, and the `file:///` path it points at, are what a PDF reader left in
the text.
**Take chapter and verse for a work.** `Matthew 4:17` and `Cf. Deuteronomy
18:15-19; Isaiah 53` are scripture references, which is most of what the
notes of a theological book are. So is `PG 4: 264` — Migne, and CSEL, NPNF,