It works for the most part in Bibles because they are mostly used for cross references and it works in commentaries because they are mostly referring to bibles.The difficulty is more a question of how to move forward.
I'll agree with you that it works *mostly*, and that the difficutly moving forward is to make it work *always.*
While an original OSIS document may refer to a particular version of the Bible, I think that Sword will continue to allow the user to pick the Bible they want to use. For example, a commentary may be based on the RSV, which is not available as a Sword module, but the user, being German, may want to read the verses in German from their favorite German Sword module.
I also agree with you here, that in most cases bible references should be linked to the user's preferred bible module. My specific concern is for the rare instances of non-biblical modules referencing each other, or bibles referencing non-biblical modules.
BTW, DM also wrote in a previous message "If I am not mistaken, Sword currently assumes that all osisRefs are to a
bible of the user's choice."
I'm pretty new to Sword, and I'm having a difficult time finding the line-of-demarcation between Sword and the various frontends. In analyzing BibleTime's source code, it seemed that BibleTime was handling almost everything to do with cross-references, and that BibleTime was making assumptions... but I can't see where or how Sword could make an assumption about an osisRef.
Any clarification?
Thanks
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