Obviously, you could animate something like this by hand but is there any software on Linux meant to simulate this kind of mechanism?
[…] what kind of referencing software are you using for writing this kind of comment? […]
None 😄 It's all done manually by me, atm. I'm sort of trying to iteratively develop my own referencing style/standard. More to your comment, though, I am considering writing a script to help me generate the references for things, as it can be a bit tedious for me at the moment to try and scrape the data when citing sources.