On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Matthew Talbert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ransom1982@gmail.com">ransom1982@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">> The advantage of this, I suppose, is that your cross-references could<br>
> be converted to OSIS refs later. The disadvantage would come if you<br>
> lose other information when encoding in OSIS, as Ben suggested.<br>
<br>
</div>What information would I lose? I'm new at this, so that's an honest<br>
question. The only formatting I'm doing is paragraph markers.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div>If you are just using paragraph markers, you won't lose anything, I don't think. It's more if you are writing html to make a look a specific way (for example, if you encoded Words of Christ using a <font color="red"> tag, or use italics for words the translators added)<br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> I don't think a module could ever contain cross-references and be the<br>
> standard module unless it used reasonably well supported methods, and<br>
> sword:// isn't, AFAIK, and I don't really think it should be. That<br>
> being the case, work is needed to support referencing properly, and<br>
> I'm not sure who is going to do it or when (but know I don't have time<br>
> to do it).<br>
<br>
</div>What aggravates me about this, is that the official response has been<br>
"Use OSIS references, don't use sword://, but OSIS references aren't<br>
supported". Why are OSIS references being recommended when they aren't<br>
supported? Are there any plans to add support? (I mean concrete plans,<br>
not "it should be done") Why is the official recommendation to do<br>
something that isn't supported (notice that at least sword:// is<br>
supported somewhere) and there aren't plans to?<br>
<div><div class="Wj3C7c"></div></div></blockquote><div>OSIS references to dictionaries are (or should be) fairly well defined. Just use module_name:key<br>For strong's numbers, the way you do it is strong:G5200 (or maybe strongs:G5200). This will work better with the new strong's module. The TSK in beta uses this referencing in places. It is more with genbooks that the difficulty creeps in. I don't think I have time before BPBible 0.4 to put support in - not that it would be hard. I also have made a dictionary which needs support for this...<br>
<br></div><div> </div><div><div class="Wj3C7c">God Bless,<br></div></div><div><div class="Wj3C7c">Ben<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Multitudes, multitudes,<br>
in the valley of decision!<br>For the day of the LORD is near<br> in the valley of decision.<br><br>Giôên 3:14 (ESV)<br></div></div></div><br>