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

[Greg Hellings]

Troy,

Yes, the previous email answered the question I had about how to add a
new filter.  It's as straightforward and easy as I suspected. :)  And
your naming scheme of *plain and *console seems pretty good but maybe
just *plain would be the ones for searching, as they are now, with NO
formatting, including ASCII new-lies etc.  And we could just do
something like osisascii.cpp for ones that still maintain the
ASCII-supported formatting?

I trust that you'll change the '\n' to ' ' in my patch if you decide
to use it.  ;)  It would make sense to at least preserve that part of
the white space otherwise searches won't work correctly as those two
words would be interpreted as one word.

Is the new *ascii filters something you would be interested in seeing?
 I'm sure with the current set of *plain filters, I could be sure to
make excellent progress on any that would be needed.  (Indeed, would
anything other than OSIS be needed?  I don't think any of the other
markup formats that I've seen are complex enough to require a
different class between *plain and *ascii uses.  In instances like
that perhaps there could be an additional entry to FMT_* that is
caught by the same case as the plain filter.  Perhaps one for
ThML2ASCII would also be good to take out the <br> and <scripRef>
elements?  Would any others need to be created that would be different
between plain and ascii formatting?

--Greg

On 1/22/07, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org> wrote:
> 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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