Hi!
Once again I seek help and advice on OSIS 2.0 coding. This time the question 
is about footnotes. In the text I have there are often verses such this:
---
1) Something first* then some other text* and few more* words at the end.
---
acompanied bye a SINGLE footnote relating to verse 1. The footnote describes 
of course all the parts of the verse marked with asterisk, but still it is a 
single footnote. Right now I've coded such verses placing 
<note></note> 
only in the place of first asterisk, leaving the rest untouched. Perhaps 
there is a better solution? I did'nt want to duplicate/triplicate? a note in 
all the asterisk appearances.
Is there a way to point that the other asterisks point to the very same 
footnote? I know that a footnote itself can have its osisId like 
Matt.1.1!note, but can it hel and be in some way referenced?

What should I do? or what possibly is the best practice in this case?

Greetings
Christopher

Krzysztof,

There is not syntax or mechanism in OSIS to express that several <note> 
elements are the "same" as each other and there is not syntax or 
mechanism in OSIS to express that a note occurs in multiple places.

It seems that you want to have notes with the same content occur where 
each of the "*" characters are placed in the text below (normally there 
would be a number of letter in the place of the "*" in the rendered text).

Assuming this is the case, the normal course would be to encode an 
individual <note> element for each point where you intend to render the 
"*".  This may seem a little inefficient but the alternatives lead to 
complications of their own.

.... Something first<note 
osisID="Gen.1.1!note.1"><catchWord>first</catchWord> text of the

note</note>then some other text<note 
osisID="Gen.1.1!note.2"><catchWord>text</catchWord> text of the 
note</note> and few more<note 
osisID="Gen.1.1!note.3"><catchWord>more</catchWord> text of the 
note</note> words at the end.



It is POSSIBLE to do the following:
.... Something first<note 
osisID="Gen.1.1!note.1"><catchWord>first</catchWord> text of the

note</note>then some other text<note 
osisID="Gen.1.1!note.2"><catchWord>text</catchWord> see the note
at 
<reference osisRef="Gen.1.1!note.1">Gen 1.1</reference> for more 
details</note> and few more<note 
osisID="Gen.1.1!note.3"><catchWord>more</catchWord><reference

osisRef="Gen.1.1!note.1">Gen 1.1</reference> for more
details</note> 
words at the end.

It is also possible to use the "n" attribute to indicate the caller to 
be used (in general this is discouraged but it is allowed) and if you 
were to use a convention for YOUR documents where the same values for 
the "n" attribute imply the same contents of the note.  This would be 
your own "hack" and I would not expect it to work universally.

Todd

Krzysztof Bialas wrote:

 > Hi!
 > Once again I seek help and advice on OSIS 2.0 coding. This time the 
question is about footnotes. In the text I have there are often verses 
such this:
 > ---
 > 1) Something first* then some other text* and few more* words at the end.
 > ---
 > acompanied bye a SINGLE footnote relating to verse 1. The footnote 
describes of course all the parts of the verse marked with asterisk, but 
still it is a single footnote. Right now I've coded such verses placing 
  <note></note> only in the place of first asterisk, leaving the
rest 
untouched. Perhaps there is a better solution? I did'nt want to 
duplicate/triplicate? a note in all the asterisk appearances.
 > Is there a way to point that the other asterisks point to the very 
same footnote? I know that a footnote itself can have its osisId like 
Matt.1.1!note, but can it hel and be in some way referenced?
 >
 > What should I do? or what possibly is the best practice in this case?
 >
 > Greetings
 > Christopher
 >
 >

Todd,
Thank You very much for Your support. I think that as You said probably the 
best idea would be just to replicate the note as many times as needed. I'll 
just add an attribute like x-note-id to know that these are indeed the 
same - this way it would be easier in the future to repair this workaround 
if OSIS will provide a proper way of doing it.
The second, as You noted, POSSIBLE, solution looks neat, but right now is 
rendered poorly (in Sword for Windows) - showing popup with a link inside 
that cannot be followed :-). So for know I'll just stick with the solution 
number 1.

Thank You again
Christopher
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Todd Tillinghast" <todd(at)contentframeworks.com>
To: <osis-user(at)whi.wts.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 1:57 AM
Subject: Re: [osis-user] Marking one footnote to few places in the same 
verse

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