[sword-devel] ThML and OSIS references

[Adrian Korten]

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Good day,

That makes sense and is what I thought should have been happening. It 
isn't working with neither a Thai commentary or dictionary. This 
commentary and dictionary use ThML formatting so maybe this feature is 
not supported by Sword. I did not test it with OSIS formatted files so 
maybe the 'osisref=' attribute is properly handled.

Attached is a file with three examples that all use the attribute 
'passage='. With two of them, there is no pop-up display or a jump-to 
reference with right-click. With the third one, the display and jump-to 
reference look good but are invalid -- the passage within the markers is 
displayed and not the actual 'passage='. It seems that 'passage=' is not 
picked up by the program.

This is not a big concern for me; I was just playing with it to see if 
it could be done. Writing a python/perl script to properly insert the 
reference info in OSIS or ThML format seems like a lot of work for the 
Thai modules. However, there does not seem to be a way for a non-English 
commentary/dictionary to insert references with actual Bible verses 
behind a user displayed piece of arbitrary text (Thai or otherwise).

ak

p.s. It was interesting to see a mention of a python project in the 
works. I'm just beginning to play more with python and will be 
interested to see how it goes.


Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> Adrian,
>     I can only speak concerning OSIS, but authoritative osisRef 
> abbreviations can be found here:
> 
> http://www.bibletechnologieswg.org/osis/specs/
> 
> Top Section, last entry: Bible Book Names
> 
> This means that you would use these (roman/latin script) abbreviations 
> in the osisRef attribute, but would have anything you would like in the 
> text node of the reference, e.g.
> 
> <reference osisRef="John.3.16">THAI UTF8 TEXT HERE</reference>
> 
> Hope that makes sense,
> 
>         -Troy.
> 
> PS.  Just so Chris doesn't jump all over me... There has been 'talk' 
> about providing a way to translate the meta information (tag names, 
> attribute name, etc.) into other languages (would use UTF8).  If this 
> ever happened, than it would follow that these abbreviations would also 
> likely be candidates for translation.  I think the whole idea is silly 
> :), but hey, it may happen anyway! :)
> 
> 
> 
> Adrian Korten wrote:
> 
>> Good day,
>>
>> I have a question about the markup for references within a text to 
>> another bible verse with either ThML or OSIS. The short tutorial has a 
>> note as described below.
>>
>> "OSIS includes a reference element for this purpose, and for our 
>> example, an instance may look something like:
>> Please see <reference osisRef="Jas.1.19">James 1:19</reference>"
>>
>> Should the osisRef (or ThML equivalent) field use the KJV English book 
>> abbreviations? Or should it use the original language book 
>> abbreviations? Should they be encoded as UTF-8 characters?
>>
>> ak
>>
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$$$กลับใจเสียใหม่ 
(ดู กลับใจใหม่) <scripRef passage="John 3:16">ลนต.1:3</scripRef>
$$$กลับใจใหม่
หันจากบาปมานอบน้อมถ่อมใจลงเชื่อฟังพระเจ้า  
$$$กิตติคุณ 
(ดู ข่าวประเสริฐ) test1  <scripRef passage="Rom. 8:30">Romans 8:29</scripRef> test2 <scripRef passage="Rom. 8:29,30">verses 29 and 30</scripRef>

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