[bt-devel] Poetry formating

[Joachim Ansorg]

Hi,

> I did some looking at the debug output format, and if we did <div> tags for
> poetry, instead of <span> tags, it would work unless you had linebreaks
> after each verse, in which case, the tag for the current entry is a div.

Hm, I guess it displays ok but it doesn't do what it is supposed to. It should 
format the lines as poetry, but things like "<span><div></span></div>" are 
not valid in html. OSIS has start and end markers but it's not possible to 
format things like "<span><div class="poetryStart"/></span><div 
class="poetryEnd"/>" with CSS. 

> I think the best solution here is to close any open tags at verse end; from
> looking at the code, it seems to me that the reason we're not doing this
> currently is that we're inserting the span tag's based on how they're
> marked up in the text, which to me makes sense, except for the problems
> we're running into with current entry. So it seems the most viable option
> is to treat each verse as if it were the only verse being displayed and
> close everything, unless we could use something other than <span> or <div>
> for the current entry.

If we close everything we loose the formatting, but fix at least the whole 
highlighting of chapters.

We'd need support in Sword for a "active tags" stack in the filters to be able 
to close all open tags at the end of a verse. But even better would be to 
convert the WEB to OSIS and insert tags using start and end markers.
BUT we'd need to find a solution how to format those markup things using CSS. 
I don't think it's possible.

At the moment I don't see a valuable bug fix for this, since it is a mixture 
of a module and software problem.

Joachim
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