Hyperlink for Catechism

Paul Chavez

I want to include a hyperlink to catechism paragraphs in a personal book. I go to the specific paragraph in the catechism, in Verbum and use the "copy location as url" from the catechism's drop down panel.

Here is the url I get for paragraph 128

logosres:catcathchrch;ref=CCC.CCC_128

Now I copy and paste that url into my word document as a hyperlink and build the book to bring it into Verbum.

After building the book, when I hover my cursor over the hyperlink in the personal book, the panel or window that pops up has 2 copies of the same paragraph.

I would like to have only one copy of the paragraph in the popup panel not 2 as it is a little distracting. Am I doing some thing wrong, is there a fix for this?

Louis St. Hilaire

Technical explanation (if you're interested):

The logosres protocol specifies both a resource with the first part of the url (logosres:catcathchrch), and a data type reference with the second part of the url (ref=CCC.CCC_128). In this case, it is specifying the English text of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and a Catechism of the Catholic Church data type reference to paragraph 128. The popup shows you two things: the location for this reference in the specific resource you've linked and the location for this reference in your top-prioritized resource that contains it. In your case, these happen to be the same resource, so it's redundant, but if you prioritized the Latin text of the Spanish translation of the CCC over the English, they would be different.

So, what you want is a link that invokes only the reference. There are a few ways of doing this.

1. Use the logosref protocol instead of logosres:

[[CCC 128 >> logosref:CCC.CCC_128]]

2. Use the [[label >> datatype:reference]] syntax:

[[CCC 128 >> CCC:CCC 128]]

The label is optional, if the text you want to display can itself be translated by the system into the reference you want:

[[CCC:CCC 128]]

[[CCC:128]]

(Note that the second only works in CCC because "128" is unambiguous within that data type. In other data types, where you need more than just a number, it won't work. So, for instance: [[Bible:3:16]] won't work because the book name needs to be supplied.)

More discussion can be found here.