Is there a literary term for when an author refers to something that is going to happen later?
I am referring to two usages of this technique.
The first is when an author says "as will be explained later" or some variation there-of.
The second, which I am more interested in, is when the author...
Genesis 13:10 has the following verse:
ויישא-לוט את-עיניו, וירא את-כל-כיכר הירדן, כי כולה, משקה--לפני שחת יהוה, את-סדום ואת-עמורה, כגן-יהוה כארץ מצריים, בואכה צוער
Translation of bold:
because it was all well-watered before Hashem destroyed Sodom and Amora
Are there any other places i...
@HodofHod By the way, I recently typed [X foo N.N u] (where X is an opus, foo is a book in that opus, and N and N are numbers), and it converted the dot to a colon.
No :( One of the first thing the code does is split the reference into chunks, throwing away the separators. It's only much later that it gets reconstructed into the hyperlink.
@Scimonster I remember mentioning BH to Hod when he was writing this. I might be the only person who ever used it there, back when I participated there (which I don't any more), but that'd be a reason to not just restrict it to here.
.@MonicaCellio @Scimonster I think the reason might have been that at the time I just copied and pasted that top part from a different SE userscript. I don't seem to have the oldest version of the script anymore, so I'm not sure if it was always there or not.
@Scimonster there are, actually. At my last company my team was asked to do some JavaScript stuff, and we went looking for coding standards and conventions.
@YeZ yeah, the mood on ELU changed a year or two back, and I found myself drifting away while they sorted out some churn, and then I went back later and wasn't really sure if I belonged there any more. Someday I'll spend more time looking around; I reached 10k there after all, so it's not like I'm uninterested. But there are other sites on the network to draw my attention. :-)
@YeZ I slipped again; I answered a question on Workplace. And they're bigger and thus more vote-y than we are to begin with, so it was a tenuous situation even without that. My Mi Yodeya aspirations exceed my current abilities; there aren't enough questions I can answer. So, I take it as a challenge. :-)
@MonicaCellio When trying to find questions for how-to, i tried looking at your posts, but for some reason i didn't find too many. (Maybe i just didn't look hard enough.)
@Scimonster I'll try to take a look later and see if there are questions I've participated on that should have that tag and currently lack it. I think there's a cluster of such questions (not just mine, but on the site in general) having to do with kashrut, so if you haven't looked there you might want to do so.
@Scimonster I've thought about, and @CharlesKoppelman even wrote code at one point to pull verse texts from there. But I'm still a bit nervous about how unpredictable it is.
@Scimonster Translations for one (though that's not such a problem for Tanach). There was also a couple weeks where Bereishis 18 was just inaccessible. I don't have any major objections to it, I guess I'm also wondering how much people want it. Let me look into what I'd have to do to add it.
@Scimonster Could be. The interlinking is really great, but there's still a lot of work to be done on the system. They're in the process of segmenting the gemara (according to the Koren) and it's constantly messing up the links/references to it.
@Scimonster Absolutely. It looks like it wouldn't be too hard from a technical standpoint. The biggest hurdle right now is going to be spellings. Sefaria uses their own spellings in their urls - instead of chapter ids or similar - which aren't the ones the script uses.
I see. So any titleVariant that the API accepts ("titleVariants": ["Genesis", "Genesis", "Gen", "Gen.", "Bereishit", "Bereshit", "Ber", "Ber.", "Breishit"]) the url will also accept.
Is there a literary term for when an author refers to something that is going to happen later?
I am referring to two usages of this technique.
The first is when an author says "as will be explained later" or some variation there-of.
The second, which I am more interested in, is when the author...
