[sword-devel] fixed Xiphos bug tripped by new ABP modules

DM Smith dmsmith at crosswire.org
Fri Aug 21 11:14:30 MST 2009


On 08/21/2009 01:09 PM, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
> Daniel Bearden's new modules, the Apostolic Bible Polyglot in both
> English and Greek, have a markup oddity in 2 verses, Ezek 24:21 and Rev
> 22:19, which results in a doubled italic<i><i>word</i></i>  as it comes
> out of the engine.  A Xiphos bug was present until a few minutes ago
> which would trip over this with Strong's enabled, by mis-analyzing which
> </i>  was the proper termination.  I've fixed this (ewww, icktooey), so
> if you want to be able to [a] use ABP [b] in these 2 chapters [c] in
> Xiphos [d] with Strong's displayed, you will have to build and run the
> very latest Xiphos SVN content.
>
> I've dropped a private note to Daniel to ask about the use of the
> doubled markup, and whether it can be reduced to single.
>    
I wonder if these are in fact double italic or something else like 
italic and underlined?

E.g.
<hi type="italic"><hi type="underline">emphasized text</hi></hi>


The current SWORD filter will change all type of hi except bold to 
italic, resulting in the double italic.

-- DM




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