Alignment of parallell texts (was: Re: [osis-core] Functional Requirements)

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Hey guys, I had Patrick sneak a 'src' attribute in on <w> a few months 
back.  We're using this for our alignment of parallel texts.  Not sure 
if it meets all the requirements for what others might want, but the 
logic is:

To align parallel texts, the easiest way is to:

o	declare some common SOURCE text (real or just conceptual)
o	mark anchors in any text that might be aligned in parallel to sync to 
the SOURCE text.

Then if you choose a base text and any aux text to be aligned to it in 
parallel, all you need to do is use the common anchors to do the alignment.

We obviously chose a Greek NT for our SOURCE text, and we are in the 
process of anchoring words and/or phases to the Greek on the KJV.  Once
other texts are done, even in other languages, we can align to some 
acceptable epsilon (determined by the granularity of the anchors), which 
is better than any other product I've seen out yet currently.

Not sure if this meets the requirement, but I can't think of a much 
better solution.

	-Troy.



>>  >Reference.5 OSIS 1.0 MUST declare a mechanism for alignment of 
>> parallel texts.
> 
> 
> Yech.
> 
>>
>> Not addressed (yet).