[sword-devel] SWORDWEB Footnote / Cross-ref support

[Daniel Blake]

FYI - I did the exact same thing.  Toggled the Footnotes on and 
immediately scrolled to the bottom of the page to see them.  It may not 
be right, but I think most of us have been trained to think and expect 
to find things that way.

Thanks for the work.  It looks good.

Daniel Blake

DM Smith wrote:

> Looks good. Some thoughts.
>
> In the NASB module each of the notes and cross references has an "n" 
> attribute which can be used for a marker. I don't know if the sword 
> api exposes them. If it does, you might want to use it.
>
> In the "It's just my preference" category, I think that since you are 
> not listing the notes at the foot of the page, they are not foot 
> notes. The first thing that I did after clicking on "Show footnotes" 
> was to scroll to the foot of the page to see the notes. Perhaps just 
> call them "Notes".
>
> In the KJV, notes often have references. How would that be handled?
>
> If the reference is to something on the same page, should it do 
> something different?
>
> I run my monitor at a high resolution and it is hard for me to click 
> on the little 'n's or 'x's. I noticed in the html that the spacing is 
> outside the span. Perhaps putting it into the span would help. I think 
> that using different marks might also help, such as †. You 
> might not need to superscript it or make it smaller.
>
> It appears that the showing or hiding of footnotes or cross references 
> goes back out to the server. It is pretty fast but it causes a redraw 
> and a jumping around of the page. I don't know what is done during 
> that refresh, but I think that the page could be gotten with all the 
> notes and references and the page built with them, but making them 
> visible based on the state of the settings.
>
> To do this, the "Study Tools" options would need to change to call 
> javascript to toggle the setting and then invoke the appropriate 
> behavior. The spacing around spans would need to be moved inside.
>
> The appropriate behaviour may be to call passageStudy.jsp as it does 
> now or to change the display state of the span with something like the 
> following pseudo code:
>
> /*
> * Set the display state of sought tags.
> * @param root         the element whose descendants are examined
> * @param tagname      the tag of the elements being sought
> * @param classvalue   the class of elements being sought
> *                     An empty classvalue means that all elements match.
> * @param displayState "none" to hide, "inline" or "block" to show
> */
> function setState(root, tagName, classValue, displayState)
> {
>  // Get all the descendants of root having the desired tagName
>  var elements = root.getElementsByTagName(tagName);
>  for (var i=0; i < elements.length; i++)
>  {
>    var item = elements[i];
>    // for those elements that match on classValue
>    if (!classValue || item.className == classValue)
>    {
>      // set the state as desired.
>      item.style.display = displayState;
>    }
>  }
> }
>
> I have used something like this to manage a tree made from a nested 
> list. If you find this interesting and want more details please ask.
>
> In His Service,
>    DM
>
> Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>
>> A first attempt at footnote / crossref support is available for 
>> testing at:
>>
>> http://crosswire.org/study/passagestudy.jsp
>>
>> Notice 2 new tools on the right: Show [Footnotes | Cross-references]
>>
>> Your feedback is appreciated.
>>
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