[osis-core] Verse numbers in notes

[Patrick Durusau]

Greetings,

Chris posted shorly after the meeting a list of issues which I am 
working through. An easy one (I think) is Verse numbers in notes:

> Similar to the problem of unbalanced quotes, <note> elements may
> include verse numbers (likely in embedded <catchWord> or <rdg>
> elements).  These should not be marked by <verse> since they do not
> mark actual verses in the text.
> 
> The best solution we came up with was: <seg type="verseNumber">1</seg>
> 
> A very yucky solution, that assumes all verse numbers are rendered as
> superscript, would be: <hi type="super">1</seg>.

But isn't the verse number in the <note> element a reference to that 
verse? And so, why not use the <reference> element?

Note that you could render, with a stylesheet, all the references in a 
note bold or something. NIV does not render verse references in notes 
(except for the beginning of the note, something like a title) bold, 
whereas the Oxford Study Bible (RSV) has notes with what I would call 
sub-notes that are not distinguished except for the reference being bolded.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model

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