[sword-devel] Converting files

[Lynn Allan]

This OSIS forum webhost seems to be offline quite a bit, so perhaps
someone can provide guidance about using osis for preparation of
"tracts". OSIS seems suitable when the material is straight Bible
verse, but I'm unclear whether it is at a state of development to be
appropriate for preparing material whose pages have significant
extra-biblical material. Like a commentary, a tract has the Bible
verses and non-verses interspersed.

Below is part of a simplified webpage from a "Sharing Bible Tract".
Each page of tract has the following "template" with associated
formatting:
0 or 1 Intro Question
0 or more prelogue comment(s)
0 or more opening context verse(s)
1 or more Sharing Verse(s)
0 or more closing verse(s)
0 or more epilogue(s)

<link rel="stylesheet" href="../common/Sb2.css" type="text/css" />
<div class="sb2UpperLogo">Do You Know If You<br />Will Go To Heaven or
Not?</div>

<p class="sb2ChapterName">1st John 5</p>
<p class="sb2ContextVerses">
<sup class="VerseNumber">11</sup> And this is what God has testified:
He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.<br />
<sup class="VerseNumber">12</sup> So whoever has God's Son has life;
whoever does not have his Son does not have life. </p>

<p class="sb2SharingPassage">
<sup class="VerseNumber">13</sup> I write this to you who believe in
the Son of God, so that you may know you have eternal life.</p>

<p class="sb2ContextVerses">
<sup class="VerseNumber">14</sup> And we can be confident that he will
listen to us whenever we ask him for anything in line with his
will.<br />
<sup class="VerseNumber">15</sup> And if we know he is listening when
we make our requests, we can be sure that he will give us what we ask
for. (NLT)</p>

<div class="sb2ExtraBulletComments">
<ul><li>Do you know whether you will be going to heaven or not when
you die? </li>
    <li>Is this something you hope happens, but aren't sure?</li>
    <li>What do you think of people who claim they know they are going
to heaven?</li>
</ul></div>

The css2 "class" provides the structure information. My impression is
that XSLT can "make decisions" based on class information to determine
what to generate.

The intent is to have a single source that can be used to generate
webpages and printable pdf pages. I'm not clear if OSIS is far enough
along to be appropriate for preparation of "tracts". I see osis
examples and osis tags for straight Bible text, but not tags to
indicate extra-biblical material. (e.g. the intro question, prelogue,
and epilogue above).


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Bearden" <cfbearden at gmail.com>
To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum"
<sword-devel at crosswire.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Converting files


> On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 17:55:32 -0700 (MST), chrislit at crosswire.org
> <chrislit at crosswire.org> wrote:
> > You could encode every document with <div> and <span> elements,
and be as
> > explicit as you like with thousands of class attributes. But that
wouldn't
> > make HTML structural markup, and it wouldn't help in the least
with
> > conversion from HTML to GBF/ThML/OSIS since there are no encoding
> > standards or conventions for structural markup of Bibles in HTML.
>
> I think if the <div>s and <span>s are in the right places and have
> class attribute values that give the necessary structural and
semantic
> information, you could use XSLT to generate a document in which much
> (if not all) of the OSIS markup had been done.  Of course, in doing
> this you would have invested a great deal of work in marking up the
> HTML document with the class attributes, when it might have been
> better just to start over marking up the bare text with OSIS and
then
> transforming to HTML.
>
> Chuck
>
> > --Chris
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Lynn Allan wrote:
> >
> > > It seems like html/xhtml can be given quite a bit a "structure"
with
> > > extensive use of css classes.
> > >
> > > <h4 class="ChapRef">Genesis 1</h4>
> > > <h5 class="Summary">God creates.</h5>
> > > <p class="GroupOfVerses">
> > > <span class="VerseNum">1</span>
> > > <span class="Verse">In the beginning ......</span>
> > > <span class="VerseNum">2</span>
> > > <span class="Verse">Now the earth was ......</span>
> > > <span class="VerseNum">3</span>
> > > <span class="Verse">God said, " ......"</span>
> > > </p>
> > >
> > >
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