[sword-devel] proposed patch: adding n=X marker content to footnotes and xrefs

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Absolutely not. Go have a baby!

Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:24 PM, scribe777 at gmail.com
><scribe at crosswire.org> wrote:
>> BibleCS, per my preference, only shows hover-over symbols for the
>note or cross reference, and does not include the 'n' label. BibleCS
>uses different filters though, so not affected.
>>
>> SWORDWeb will be affected.
>>
>> My thought on this is similar to strongs. Don't show the numbers.
>They are left overs from the era of print-only.
>>
>> The exception use case is possibly our NET module which has a
>commentary accompaniment module which might refer to footnotes by
>label.  If I remember correctly.
>>
>> So, I would like the choice to not have the label for the frontends I
>maintain, but if users really want to see the label, I could be swayed
>on this point, wearing my frontend developer hat.
>>
>> But I don't want to take away the choice from other potential
>frontend developers.
>>
>> I understand Karl's desire to not want Xiphos and all other frontend
>developers to do the work of adding the label, if everyone mostly wants
>the label.
>>
>> Can we have both?
>
>SWModule::RenderText(bool includeNumbers=false)
>
>Would that do the trick?
>
>--Greg
>
>>
>> Karl, I haven't looked at your patch yet, but is there a way to wrap
>the label in a <span class="[fn,cx]-label"> then I can simply set
>display:none for these in swordweb?
>>
>> Troy
>>
>> Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Bible Time does its own thing and wouldn't be bothered by this
>change.
>>>It
>>>dispenses with any semblance of delineation. Both notes and cross
>>>references are marked with "(*)" everywhere they appear.
>>>
>>>--Greg
>>>On Feb 7, 2012 9:38 PM, "Karl Kleinpaste" <karl at kleinpaste.org>
>wrote:
>>>
>>>> To date, we have DM in support of n=X content in *n/*x, as well as
>>>Brian
>>>> noting that consistency should be supported in that note numbers
>>>provide
>>>> the common language of note reference.
>>>>
>>>> No one has suggested that such an update is a bad idea, though Troy
>>>> wondered aloud the other night in #xiphos about choice being taken
>>>away.
>>>> Considering that no other frontend (to my knowledge) makes any
>effort
>>>to
>>>> do Xiphos-style post-processing in order to get n=X content into
>>>place,
>>>> personally I think the question of choice is moot: All other
>>>frontends
>>>> simply take the null choice, that is, whatever the engine gives
>them,
>>>> n=X-less.
>>>>
>>>> My inclination remains to commit the patch, but I'm concerned that
>so
>>>> little feedback has been seen.
>>>>
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