Automatic reference - source linkage filter

MJ. Smith

Using the Westminster Confession of Faith as an example, currently one can select the text, build a Passage list on the selection, and filter the Bible (or other versified resource) by that passage list. But what this provides is simply passages torn from context that duplicate what one can read in the Passage List itself. What is needed is a more complex tool, something that generates a linkage that can be saved and applied as a visual filter. The process would run something like:
1. Scan the text for versified references collecting the source location and the target reference.
2. Build a linkage document that can be applied through the selection process for visual filters (e.g. passage list).
3. This linkage document inserts an icon at the start of the target reference. Clicking on that icon opens a menu to select a link back to the original source (e.g. Westminster Confession) when there are multiple references or directly back to the reference in the original source when there is only one reference.

This provides a links both directions (source to target is currently tagged in the resource) and keeps the references in context.