Sword (I use it with BibleTime) is a great project, but one thing that I miss badly is cross references in the style of many printed editions (or am I missing something?).
Cross references, I think, should be implemented as a separate module, independently of any particular Bible version/translation. Maybe the lexicon module type is suitable, or perhaps one should create a new module type for this. I'd like, for example, to drag and drop a verse into a cross-ref module window, which then displays a list of cross references. Dragging/dropping a reference into a Bible window would take me to the referenced passage. This would be especially useful if there were Web-brower-style backward/forward buttons associated with each window that allow me to navigate back and forth along my history of visited passages. The Thompson Chain References already do much of this, but only in one direction (or am I missing something?): I can click/drag/drop from withing TCR to take me to a Bible passage, but not the other way (unless I cut/paste an exact word into the TCR selection box). In the above terms, what's missing is a way to list all Thompson topics associated with a given verse, independently of the Bible version/translation. This requires that a cross-ref module be indexed by reference. The Thompson module should have such an index in addition to the existing index by topic name. Any comments to the above ideas? Where do we get cross references from? I guess that the existing references are not usable because (1) of copyright restrictions and (2) they are not available in electronic form. (I hope I'm somewhat wrong here.) In that case, to gather a body of useful cross references, we could set up a database where anyone could post suggested cross references (with annotations/remarks), which could continuously be peer reviewed and periodically be rolled up in an updated cross-ref module release. If people differ strongly on what type of cross references they like, one could release several such modules independently. What do you think? Justus -- Justus H. Piater, Ph.D. http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~piater Institut Montefiore, B28 Phone: +32-4-366-2279 Universit� de Li�ge, Belgium Fax: +32-4-366-2620 _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
