Probably nobody cares about this topic and absolutely nobody has an opinion on it, but how should we do Biblical notation?
[[Gen 1:1]] leads to
Book of Genesis, chapter 1, verse 1
??
+[John 1–3; 3:16; 6:14, 44]+
Or we use crosses?
Do we ask for a certain translation like
+[KJV ~ Gen 1:1]+
Or something?
What sort tags does each verse need?
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Specific translations are important for sure; not sure how to implement though.
Yeah a bit tricky, but it's basically that we have to think of what we'd want to search for.
We already published the KJV and Douay-Rheims, by chapter, but it's not really useful that way. I keep wanting to embed verses in notes with a link.
[[Gen 1:1]] is the same as a wililink, so that was a dumb suggestion.
Need some other bracketing.
:[Gen 1:1]: is very clean. I low-key love the +, tho.
How does biblegatway do it? They probably have a good system. (Not sure this is relevant as I don't really know what is going on in this note lol)
I like the +[Gen 1:1]+. Traditionally, Bible verses may be cited in a different way than other works, so it seems sensible to have a unique citation style as an AsciiDoc extension.
We can also include the translation abbreviation, e.g. +[Gen 1:1 KJV]+ or [Gen 1:1 RSV]+.
We'd want to publish a table of supported abbreviations for book and translation names.
Ah, yeah, didn't realize that we could just use whitespace as a book delimiter. Cleaner.
3 votes for +[ ]+, so far.
No opinion on the notation per se, but the translation call out should be optional. Also, a good reader should provide the option to override a specified translation. For example, notation calls for KJV, but I only want to see NET.
Also, it might be helpful to look over OSIS. This is a Bible & related text encoding standard that is gaining cross-platform traction:
They include a lot of obscure stuff, but some of it is interesting. Like "canonical".
