[sword-devel] howto: mod2osis

[Greg Hellings]

On 5/31/06, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org> wrote:
> SWORD does not currently have an end user tool to convert and export
> OSIS genbooks or lexicons.
>
> All software at CrossWire is not finished, and will always be such :)
> Anyone want to extend mod2osis to support this, it would be a great
> addition.  The conversion to OSIS of an individual entry is already
> supported by our filters, but recognition of a genbook, modification of
> the OSIS header to reflect such, utilizing TreeKey, instead of VerseKey
> and surrounding each entry with appropriate <div> containers is what
> needs coded.

As was exactly my suggestion :).  I'll take a look at that at some
point, but I don't know all that much about OSIS, so if I decide to
tackle that question, it will be quite some effort to learn about OSIS
before I can properly make modifications.  It seems like it would be a
useful tool, and not terribly difficult to undertake.  Is there some
sort of documentation regarding the preferred standards of OSIS to use
for Crosswire modules - such as where to put information regarding the
type of work that is being created, and how to break up the titles and
headers (kinda like DM's message in this thread about osis2mod creates
the keys...).

--Greg

>
>        -Troy.
>
>
>
> DM Smith wrote:
> > You can see the source for mod2osis here (It may have changed since
> > 1.5.8 was released):
> > http://www.crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk/utilities/mod2osis.cpp
> >
> > In reading it I noticed a couple of things:
> > I think that the text is being filtered from whatever internal format
> > into OSIS. So if it is originally GBF or ThML markup then it becomes OSIS.
> > The module is assumed to be a Bible as that is hard coded into the OSIS
> > type statement in the osisWork element.
> > The code further assumes that the module is arranged as Book, Chapter
> > and Verse (BCV). This is true of Bibles and some commentaries. But not
> > of other works.
> >
> >
> > So, if I am reading this correctly, mod2osis is not the right mechanism
> > to get OSIS out of a GenBook.
> >
> >
> > Greg Hellings wrote:
> >> This does present an interesting question:
> >>
> >> Ought mod2osis support all types of modules?  If the attempt is to
> >> move all modules into being used in OSIS format as originals, then why
> >> not extend the functionality of mod2osis so that it properly works for
> >> all types of modules?
> >>
> >> --Greg
> >>
> >> On 5/29/06, Jónatas Ferreira <jonatas at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > Sorry. I didn't think about using Bundles for modules on the Mac. ;)
> >>> > Thought you have installed the modules the "normal" way.
> >>>
> >>> Is there another way to install it on the Mac? I didn't know about
> >>> that. How is it?
> >>>
> >>> > Joachim is right, you have to go into every Bundle directory.
> >>> > "mods.d" and "modules" folders should be in the current directory
> >>> > when you use mod2osis.
> >>>
> >>> Yes, I already tried that. And now I also know that I can't use
> >>> mod2osis in this kind of modules, it is only useful for bibles or
> >>> commentaries.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you,
> >>> Jónatas
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