If I recall correctly, you are right. The <scripRef> tag only worked to create a reference to a Bible work. I don't recall if Bibletime gave support for specifying a specific version to open or not. And I don't think that generic <a> tags were working, but I thought that Daniel Glassey was working on implementing them... ?
<br><br>--Greg<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">DM Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:dmsmith555@yahoo.com">dmsmith555@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Greg Hellings wrote:<br>> I could almost swear that there is support in at least some front ends<br>> already for linking from a <scripRef> entity. Doesn't Bibletime<br>> support that? I thought that it was working this summer when I was
<br>> working with several ThML texts. Maybe I was thinking of some one of<br>> the prototype implementations we were working with. Implementation in<br>> the RTF-based BibleCS, though...? I've never tried it.
<br>In an earlier discussion on Strongs it was noted that Strongs often<br>references other entries in its work, but that Sword did not support<br>internal linking from one dictionary entry to another. I may have<br>misunderstood, but based on this I doubt that there is support for links
<br>to anything but a Bible, Strongs or Robinsons.<br><br>According to <a href="http://www.ccel.org/ThML/ThML1.04.htm">http://www.ccel.org/ThML/ThML1.04.htm</a><br><scripRef> is used for a reference to scripture and not a general
<br>purpose reference.<br><br>ThML uses <a> as an HTML anchor to other documents and also provides<br><sync type="" value=""> for cross-references. My guess is that support<br>for these is limited. In the case of <a> the url would need to be
<br>decoded to understand it as a module reference, probably introducing a<br>new protocol. In the case of sync the type attribute is unconstrained<br>and essentially requires an application to interpret the value in its<br>
context (eg type=Strongs). I don't know if this has been defined as a<br>module reference.<br><br>Turning to OSIS the possibilities are better. OSIS defines the<br><reference osisRef=""> element where the osisRef can refer to an
<br>external work. An osisRef contains a workid if it refers to another<br>document. I don't know the level of support for this element, other than<br>how JSword handles it.<br><br>At this time JSword assumes that the osisRef does not contain a workid
<br>and that it refers to a passage in the user's current working Bible.<br>This is not proper usage, but we have not found situations in the<br>available modules which have other kinds of references.<br><br>><br>> --Greg
<br>><br>> On 2/8/06, *Barry Drake* <<a href="mailto:b.drake@ntlworld.com">b.drake@ntlworld.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:b.drake@ntlworld.com">b.drake@ntlworld.com</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Hi there .........
<br>><br>> Some of us are doing a feasibility study on the NET bible from<br>> <a href="http://www.bible.org/">http://www.bible.org/</a> with a view to offering a Sword module. The NET<br>> bible comes with a massive set of footnotes. In the present
<br>> incarnation<br>> of Sword (certainly in the Windows front end) the use of such<br>> extensive<br>> footnoting would make the version difficult to follow. There are<br>> often<br>> many footnotes in a single verse.
<br>><br>> One solution, suggested I think by Chris Little was to make the front<br>> end capable of displaying footnotes in a separate window from the<br>> bible<br>> text. An alternative is to make the notes into a commentary module,
<br>> with the footnotes in the text neing represented by footnote numbers.<br>> If this second alternative were considered, is it possible to link<br>> these<br>> footnote numbers to the commentary window? What I'm looking for is
<br>> linking that looks up tags in commentaries like scripture references<br>> embedded in a commentary - as an example - <scripRef>John<br>> 1:3</scripRef><br>> in a ThML tagged commentary.
<br>><br>> Do we have provision for this in the filters?<br>><br>> God bless,<br>><br>> Barry<br>><br>_______________________________________________<br>sword-devel mailing list: <a href="mailto:sword-devel@crosswire.org">
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