<br><div class="gmail_quote">Hello again,<div><br></div><div>Our project is really on the finish lines now, but I still ran across a few new questions, this time about footnotes.</div><div><br></div><div><b>QUESTION 1:</b></div>
<div><br></div><div>In the text (at least in print versions), there is an asterisk marking the position of a footnote. Again, in the print version, at the bottom of the page you'll find a list of the footnotes on that page. Each item on the list starts with an abbreviation of the verse or range it refers to, and then comes the actual footnote text. So there's actually a sort of bidirectional link between the text and the footnote, with different markers at each end.</div>
<div><br></div><div>To clarify the terms (I'm not sure what these different elements really should be called), here's an example (from 1Pet.5.13).</div><div>The actual passage:</div><div><div><br></div><div><font size="1" color="#3366ff">13</font><font color="#990000"> Teille lähettää tervehdyksen Babylonissa</font><font color="#6600cc">*</font><font color="#990000"> oleva seurakunta, valittu niin kuin tekin.</font></div>
</div><div><br></div><div>and the footnote at the bottom of the page:</div><div><font size="1" color="#33cc00">5:13</font><font color="#990000"> Babylon on peitenimi, jolla tarkoitetaan Roomaa.</font></div><div><br></div>
<div>Obviously, the whole <note> markup should be where the asterisk is, shouldn't it?</div><div>So, first without some attributes:</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#990000">Teille lähettää tervehdyksen Babylonissa</font><font color="#ff0000"><note type="explanation"></font><font color="#990000">Babylon on peitenimi, jolla tarkoitetaan Roomaa.</font><font color="#ff0000"></note></font><font color="#990000"> oleva seurakunta, valittu niin kuin tekin.</font></div>
<div><br></div><div>Is that correct so far? I selected type="explanation" since that seemed the most general type - in our project it's not possible to classify them more exactly.</div><div><br></div><div>Then we add the osisRef to define the range this note applies to, and an n attribute to store the marker in the footnote (green in the above example):</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><font color="#990000">Teille lähettää tervehdyksen Babylonissa</font><font color="#ff0000"><note type="explanation" osisRef="1Pet.5.13" n="5:13"></font><font color="#990000">Babylon on peitenimi, jolla tarkoitetaan Roomaa.</font><font color="#ff0000"></note></font><font color="#990000"> oleva seurakunta, valittu niin kuin tekin.</font></div>
<div><br></div></div><div>The reference marker will in some cases be tailored from just a standard verse reference, so it has to be stored in some attribute - it can't be derived from the osisRef.</div><div><br></div>
<div>We are rather close now, but where should I place the asterisk? The n attribute would otherwise be the obvious place, but it's in use already. Or is there some other place to store the reference marker?</div><div>
<br></div><div>The asterisk shouldn't be after the </note> closing tag since it's not content but structure.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>To save time: please don't suggest that I omit the green reference marker - as I mentioned, building it up from the osisRef is not an acceptable option.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My best shot would be omitting the asterisk for now and mention in the documentation that the <note> structure should display as an asterisk at least in print versions. But can you think of better ways?</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>QUESTION 2:</b></div><div><br></div><div>There are cases when there are several asterisks that refer to the same footnote. These asterisks can be in the same verse, in adjacent verses or sometimes even non-adjacent verses (although this won't probably make a difference).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Duplicating an identical reference to each asterisk would seem like a really stupid solution, but how do you define a note that refers to another footnote but acts like a footnote and not like a cross-reference? </div>
<div><br></div><div>Example, Luke 22:43,44:</div><div><font size="1" color="#3366ff">43</font> <font color="#990000">Silloin taivaasta ilmestyi hänelle enkeli, joka vahvisti häntä.* </font><font size="1" color="#3366ff">44</font> <font color="#990000">Suuressa tuskassaan Jeesus rukoili yhä kiihkeämmin, niin että hänen hikensä vuoti maahan veripisaroiden tavoin.*</font></div>
<div><br></div><div>Footnote:</div><div><font size="1" color="#33cc00">22:43,44</font><font color="#990000"> Nämä jakeet puuttuvat useista käsikirjoituksista mutta kuulunevat Luukkaan alkuperäiseen tekstiin.</font></div>
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I don't want the footnote text to appear (in the OSIS file) twice, at both asterisks, but both asterisks should refer to the same footnote instead.<br><br>Thanks again in advance for any help,<br><br>Markku<div><br></div>
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