[bt-devel] Multiple lemmas (OSIS)

[Martin Gruner]

Hi Tom.

Thanks for your research so far. To be honest, I cannot say why it would have 
to check for G or H. Can you please change it to skip the test and then 
verify that the code still works with other Sword modules which contain lemma 
information? If it does, I'll remove the check in SVN as well.

The filter code isn't very nice, as you have clearly seen. It will need a 
rewrite in future.

Regards, mg

Am Donnerstag, 20. März 2008 schrieb Tom Cornell:
> As an exercise in learning about the Sword library and friends, and to help
> me with my homework for a Greek class I'm taking at my church, I have been
> trying to construct a Sword module from the CCAT/Tauber source material at
> MorphGNT.org. Because the text is UBS4/NA27, sometimes the lemmas differ
> from what you would find in Strong's. So I want to display the lemma from
> the CCAT/Tauber database (which is also what you would find in the UBS4
> glossary) in addition to the entry from Strong's, in BibleTime (which for
> me is by far the most intuitive sword client I have found for doing NT
> Greek, at least).
>
> Unfortunately, I could not get the extra lemma to show up in BT.
>
> The module I am constructing is in OSIS format, so this has to do with
> backend/bt_osishtml.cpp. The tag in my module looks something like this:
>
> <w lemma="lemma.DUMMY:ἐν lemma.strong:G1722" morph="robinson:PREP">ἐν</w>
>
> In BibleTime version 1.6.5, bt_osishtml.cpp line 155 there is the following
> if-statement:
>
>             if ((*val == 'H') || (*val == 'G')) {
>               attrValue.append(val);
>             }
>
> Basically, the "alternate" lemma (well, it's the same as Strong's _most_ of
> the time) is filtered out because it doesn't start with 'G' or 'H'. I can
> change my OSIS generator to prepend a 'G', and it will work, but the output
> is funny looking, because there is no break between the G and the greek
> characters. It looks better if I simply comment out the if. It still shows
> up as "Strongs: ἐν", but I can live with that for now.
>
> So the question is: What would be the right way to get this result? I
> presume that if-statement is there for a reason, and there is something it
> is guarding against. Any advice would be welcome.
>
> Tom Cornell