[sword-devel] osis2mod warnings

[DM Smith]

Since we are top posting....

Let me add that BCV input will always work with osis2mod. The SWORD  
engine expects BCV and osis2mod has little to do with a BCV input.  
But, it has lots to do to convert BCV into BSP.

Our goal for osis2mod is that an OSIS module writer will not have to  
adjust their input document. We are not quite there yet. There are a  
couple of changes that still need to happen, the biggest is the  
removal of the pre-verse hack and the retention of all markup  
(possibly losslessly transformed) without re-arranging the tags.

That said, nearly every programmatic generation of an OSIS document  
from another input will produce bad OSIS, though it may be well-formed  
and valid.

In Him,
	DM

On Dec 3, 2008, at 4:28 AM, Chris Little wrote:

> Sword and osis2mod accept BSP-style OSIS Bibles because BSP is the
> primary structure paradigm suggested by OSIS. BSP is the primary
> paradigm for OSIS because that was the recommendation given by  
> Wycliffe.
>
> In my experience (and according to the Wycliffe people we consulted
> while designing OSIS), SFM is likewise primarily oriented to the BSP
> structure. Chapters and (especially) verses are just points of  
> division
> within a text where you print a number.
>
> That is to say--we're just doing as Wycliffe told us (via OSIS).
>
> --Chris
>
> David Haslam wrote:
>> Likewise, the OSIS flavour usable by Go Bible Creator is the BCV  
>> structure
>> rather than the milestoned BSP structure (where S denotes section,  
>> that in
>> theory can span chapter boundaries).  However, as from version  
>> 2.3.2, Go
>> Bible Creator can process directly from a folder of USFM files as the
>> source-text format.  This revision makes it very attractive to Bible
>> translators, such as those in Wycliffe.
>>
>> -- David Haslam
>>
>>
>> Adrian Korten wrote:
>>> ---- Original Message -----
>>> *From:* DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com>
>>>> Chris has finally convinced me that the OSIS best practice is to
>>>> structure the Bible as a document (aka BCP) and lay in  
>>>> versification
>>>> using milestones.
>>>>
>>>> But the SWORD engine works best with verses being the primary
>>>> structure (aka BCV). The purpose of osis2mod has always been  
>>>> convert
>>>> the input OSIS into something that works well with the SWORD  
>>>> engine.
>>>> That said, as we get more and more OSIS texts we are finding
>>>> shortcomings in osis2mod.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I think that I'm more interested in the BCV version. I don't have
>>> control of the texts and the copyright holders want to maintain  
>>> them in
>>> USFM format. So the OSIS conversion is just to get it into a better
>>> format to import to a Sword module. And I prefer to keep the BCV
>>> formatting since that is strong in the original format and what is
>>> eventually used by the Sword engine.
>
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