[bt-devel] suggestions

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On Wednesday 26 May 2004 11:11 am, Martin Gruner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to suggest that crossrefs remain in the text (e.g. Gen 1:1),
> and the info display shows their target when you hover over them.

I was looking at this and if this is desirable it seems easy enough to fix. 
It's just a matter of replacint the - which gets covererd up via css with the 
text of the crossreference. I can patch it myself if you like. In fact, I'll 
test it locally and see how just replacing the - with the reference works 
with multiple cross refs.

And I agree, having it be a box or however we end up doing footnotes might be 
a good idea for Bibles, but *NOT* for commentary modules like the TSK or 
Robinsons. Bibles here would be a special case I think, though I hate to add 
more special cases to the thml->html and osis->html filters (gbf doesn't seem 
to have cross references?)

> For footnotes we also need to find a solution. The current yellow box is
> not optimal. How about superscript numbers as usual in texts?

I might can look into this too. I'm waiting on a guy to get back to me on a 
remote contract programming job. If someone else is doing it or he's doing it 
himself, or for some reason I don't have to do it I might can work on it.

>From what I can see right now, it looks like having a footnote counter in the 
module and displaying the number in superscript, incrementing it each time. 
Though with numbers, what happens with footnote 1,458? that's a large number 
that will still interrupt the display of the text. Maybe a letter of the 
locale's alphabet and reset when you hit the end? How do languages other than 
english handle footnotes? (I've not done extensive reading in languages other 
than english)

Also would it be possible to reformat the source so it doesn't go so far out 
on the line? Some of us don't have displays quite as big as it appears the 
lines take up, and with kwrite/kdevelop/whatever's default settings, I get 
sometimes very large spans of lines with x type things which pad the word 
wrapped things to where the text begins on the line.

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