"The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge" is a cross-reference module.
by grace alone, Don A. Elbourne Jr. http://elbourne.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justus Piater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 2:42 AM Subject: [sword-devel] Cross references > 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 _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
