[sword-devel] diatheke plain output - line breaks missing?

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Greg,
	We just missed eachother :)  Hope my previous email answers your 
questions.  Yes, adding a newline in your patch would break the 
functionality of the primary purpose for the *plain filters.  The issue 
is that we are using them secondarily as output filters.  You have 
noticed this and suggested well that we should have 2 different filter sets.

	-Troy.



Greg Hellings wrote:
> Indeed.  Troy, in that case is my insertion of the new-line character
> going to break the searches?  If one searches for a string that spans
> a new-line character in the filter, will the search pick up the
> white-space and be intelligent about searching for the newline
> character also?  And what about the fact that DM says that <q> is not
> translated to "?
> 
> And if I wanted to take the current osisplain.cpp/.h and translate
> them into an output filter that would be more suitable for something
> like diatheke, what types of changes should be made to make that
> visible by the SWMgr?  As was pointed out, if the main purpose of the
> current *plain.cpp files is to prepare the output for searching and
> not for display perhaps there should be a *plain_serach and
> *plain_display variants or some other such naming scheme?
> 
> --Greg
> 
> On 1/22/07, benjie <cricketc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:09:14PM -0700, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>>> Well, kindof.  It's a matter of purpose.  The purpose for a strip filter
>>> is to prepare the buffer for a search, e.g. stristr(StripText(), istr)
>>>
>>> for example, if one searches for a phrase,
>>> "streams of water that yield"
>>>
>>> It should hit on Psalm 1:3
>>>
>>> He is like a tree
>>> planted by streams of water
>>> that yields its fruit in its season,
>>> and its leaf does not wither.
>>> In all that he does, he prospers.
>>>
>>> So, in conclusion, filters have different purposes.
>>> From: http://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk/include/swmodule.h
>>>
>>>   virtual SWModule &AddRenderFilter(SWFilter *newfilter);
>>>   virtual SWModule &AddEncodingFilter(SWFilter *newfilter);
>>>   virtual SWModule &AddStripFilter(SWFilter *newfilter);
>>>   virtual SWModule &AddRawFilter(SWFilter *newfilter);
>>>   virtual SWModule &AddOptionFilter(SWOptionFilter *newfilter);
>> So if we are interested in working with a plain text (ASCII) rendering
>> filter, we really need to write a new filter specifically for that. It
>> seems like that would be good for diatheke, which defaults to plain
>> output anyway. It wouldn't hurt for that output to be formatted a bit
>> better.
>>
>> -Benjie
>>
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