The problem with turning a script like that on globally is that
occasionally regular words spell out roman numbers. So, you might have
eleven running China if you just let it run amok.
David, almost certainly scripture references only run to 150 (151,2?) as
every reference I've seen romanizes the
Dear Don,
We have a few old commentaries which use roman numerals as their
reference. Our parser understands these and can convert them into
OSISRefs, e.g.,
http://crosswire.org/study/examples/parsevs.jsp?vs=Jn+XVII%3A4
The issue is finding them in the text (as David has pointed out, you
don't
Given that the scope of Roman numerals for a Scripture reference is limited to
the range of positive integers from 1 to 176,
a general conversion algorithm is not strictly necessary. It should suffice to
apply a simple replace list filter for whole words matching any of these Roman
numerals, ta
