[sword-devel] Sections, Titles and OSIS hiccups

[Greg Hellings]

Ben,

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Ben Morgan<benpmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you using osis2mod from SVN? If not, then this may have been fixed
> already.

Rev2400 is the 1.6.0 release of osis2mod, 2435 which I also tried, is
the SVN HEAD version of osis2mod (SVN HEAD).  Because of a conf file
error, I didn't get any output with 2400 (I had specified the RawText
driver instead of the zText) so I switched to 2435.  I don't know
where the headings appear with 2400, as DM always encourages people to
use SVN HEAD and it wasn't until after I switched to HEAD that I
discovered my problem with the conf file.

--Greg

> God Bless,
> Ben
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>    in the valley of decision!
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>
> Giôên 3:14 (ESV)
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> OSIS fans and module gurus,
>>
>> I'm trying to follow the best practices of OSIS here, but things just
>> seem a little out of whack - and it regards the mischevious
>> inter-verse content.  I have rendered the following OSIS snippet:
>>
>>    <verse eID="Matt.1.25"/>
>>    <chapter eID="Matt.1"/>
>> </div>
>> <div type="section" canonical="true">
>>    <title>Ang Pag-abot it mga Mainalamon nga mga Tawo</title>
>>    <chapter osisID="Matt.2" sID="Matt.2"/>
>>    <verse osisID="Matt.2.1" sID="Matt.2.1"/>
>>
>> While this seems like the right way, conceptually, to do things in my
>> opinion, the results are not what I want.  The title text clearly is
>> associated with Chapter 2, in both semantics and in the OSIS document
>> itself.  Title is a sibling of the <chapter osisID="Matt.2"> element,
>> while being but a cousin of Matt.1's elements.  When I display the
>> text in a frontend, however, I find the text of that title at the end
>> of chapter 1 instead of right before chapter 2.
>>
>> More frustrating, though, the following corresponding snippet, from
>> the beginning of the book:
>> <div type="book" canonical="true" osisID="Matt">
>>    <title type="main" short="Matt">Matt</title>
>>    <div type="section" canonical="true">
>>        <title>Ang mga Ulang ni Jesu Kristo</title>
>>        <chapter osisID="Matt.1" sID="Matt.1"/>
>>        <verse osisID="Matt.1.1" sID="Matt.1.1"/>
>> renders exactly as I want it to.  When I pull up Matthew 1, I get the
>> section title, "Ang mga Ulang ni Jesu Kristo," right before verse 1.
>> That's what I want to happen with identical code at the beginning of
>> chapter 2, but it doesn't!
>>
>> I realize that calculating such relative relationships is possibly
>> beyond the ken of osis2mod, but is there any better means I could use
>> to associate that title with chapter 2?  It's not a chapter title, so
>> putting it inside of either chapter limits is clearly incorrect.  I
>> could possibly render it to be part of Matt.2.0, but it's not an
>> introduction, and the section that it titles does not span the whole
>> chapter and the title would not be displayed anyway, in most
>> frontends.
>>
>> My own suggestion is that a <title> element should be associated with
>> the object that it precedes - at least in the English speaking world
>> I'm accustomed to seeing titles before their works.  Whether or not it
>> is actually *part of* that object is probably a case-by-case
>> situation, and one best left up to the encoder.  But, in the interim,
>> what am I to do here?
>>
>> --Greg
>>
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