I mocked up the sort of interface I would love to have You can see it at
http://scott.sauyet.com/Tiddlywiki/Demo/KingJamesBible/experiment1/
This is not in an actual TiddlyWiki; I just borrowed the HTML structure and CSS. I also generated the text of the tiddler from a real wiki. But then I manually added spacing to the verse number to line them up with their corresponding verses. And I wrote some fairly standard JS event handling to handle the hovering of the verses and of the verse numbers. It looks like this:
There are two problems with trying to create this in an actual wiki. The one I think is probably solvable (although I don’t know how to do it) is how to do the sort of hover-here-to-highlight-there activity in wikitext. The second one scares me more: finding a way to automatically add the proper vertical offset to the verse numbers, or finding some other way to keep them aligned.
If anyone has suggestions for either of these ideas, I would appreciate hearing them.
But also, is this even worth pursuing? I have a decent inline verse numbers as links version and a version that highlights the verse on hover and links to the verse tiddler. The advantages of this hypothetical version to me is that it keeps the verse numbers closely aligned with the text, but doesn’t disturb the flow of the text with them. The numbers are relatively subtle and will be easy to turn off. My question is simple: Are those compelling enough advantages to make this worth pursuing? Or would you prefer one of the existing views over this?