[sword-devel] Problem with '&' in NET bible

[Greg Hellings]

Hi....

On 7/19/06, Barry Drake <b.drake at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hi there ........
>
> I've just been taking a close look at the '&' problem that I mentioned
> on this list.  Moses Truong (who wrote the script that makes the NET
> modules) corrected a problem with the ampersand.  This only appears when
> Greek lexicon 'L&N' references are given.  However, this correction has
> given rise to another problem which I think may be Sword related.
>
> In the NET bible module, in which the notes are displayed as footnotes,
> there is no problem.  In the NETnotes module, where the notes come as a
> commentary, the note truncates immediately before the '&'.
>
> The raw text for the note at Revelation 22:3 appears in the raw module
> nt file as '<p><sup>9</sup> <b>tn</b>  Or "be anything accursed" (L&N
> 33.474).'
>
> This displays as: '9 tn  Or "be anything accursed" (L'  in the NETnotes
> commentary, but displays correctly as '9 tn  Or "be anything accursed"
> (L&N 33.474).' in the NET bible footnotes.  As this occurs with all of
> the frontends as far as I know, I take it something happens when an '&'
> is encountered in one of the filters in the library - presumably the
> footnotes are not filtered in the same way?.

It seems to me strange - I know that in HTML the & is a restricted
character, so it might make sense that the filter doesn't pick it up
and properly escape it.  I am not familiar enough with RTF to know if
the ampersand is a special character there or not.  Seems to me that
it easily could be.

> Is there something we need
> to do to get the '&' and the text that follows it to appear? I suppose
> if all else fails, we could replace the ampersand with 'and', but L and
> N is a bit naff, don't you think?

I agree - it seems really odd to replace & by 'and' either forcibly
through the filter or in every module which might use one.

>
> God bless,
>
> Barry
>
> -- From Barry Drake (The Revd) minister of the Netherfield United Reformed church, Nottingham see http://www.jesusinnetherfield.org.uk for our church homepages).
>
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>
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