[osis-core] Verse numbers in notes

[Chris Little]

Patrick Durusau wrote:

> 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

This sounds fine to me.  There are cases where a verse or a set of 
verses are placed within a note (rather in the text), as a way of 
including believedly spurious verses.  In these cases, I think we want 
to use <verse> itself within a <note>.  But otherwise, <reference> would 
work fine.

--Chris