We were actually dealing a bit with the idea of a heads-up verse comparison/translation interface. Its not just about linking, its about compiling a page that displays the content of two separate articles (different selected versions) but the same verses in parallel.
The Navpop tool can show text from a particular section when mouseovering a section link, so I suppose a little of that would work. Then what would a parallel link look like? Something like [[source:Bible:Douay:Genesis|1|3|compare:Bible:KJV]] ? And a url scheme like http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible:Douay:Genesis%C2%A7ion=1&compare=Bib...
I guess templating could work too.
-Steve
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Charles Matthewscharles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
stevertigo wrote:
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Charles Matthewscharles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
The use of transclusion by section on Wikisource would make it technically simple to bring the existing verses (or chapters) together on pages for parallel reading. Of course it would be a lot of work ... and I suppose it should be done chapter-wise. (Verses are at best a convenience - chapter divisions have I think a wider acceptance, and are at least historically older.)
Transwiki transclusion translation discrete-level differential interface? I think our techie lurkers just said kthxbye.
It's as hard as pasting in markers like <section begin=Genesis 1/> on pages translating Genesis 1, and creating a master page to marshall the bits.
Charles
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