[sword-devel] Poetry and indented lines

[DM Smith]

Chris Little wrote:
>
>
> DM Smith wrote:
>> With regard to OSIS, if there are short-comings, we should try to 
>> influence the standard. This is a proper venue for how we at 
>> CrossWire would like to work with OSIS.
>>
>> Regarding the <l> element and indents here is what the manual has to 
>> say:
>> *l: The l element is used to mark separate lines in a lg (line group) 
>> element. This will be most commonly used in the encoding of poetry.*
>> *
>> *
>> *The level attribute takes a positive integer value that indicates 
>> which line in a line group is being encoded. This can be used in 
>> processing to insure proper indentation of lines.*
>> *
>> *
>>
>> If I understand this right, the level attribute should be used to 
>> indicate the depth of indentation. Perhaps level="1" and level not 
>> being specified should mean the same thing. And ESV should be 
>> re-coded to have it properly set.
>>
>> (I'd like Chris' input!)
>
> This is precisely my understanding as well, and I try to encode using 
> this semantic for the level attribute on <l>. The usfm2osis.pl 
> converter, for example, should interpret the level indicators in SFM 
> and copy those to the level attribute. So, in theory, there should be 
> a number of Bibles already encoded like this (just don't ask me to 
> remember which they are).

Thanks Chris. Based on that I've updated 
http://crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles#Marking_poetic_material.

I checked the SWORD and JSword renderers and they don't do indentation 
based upon level. I think it would be simple to add. I'll do it for 
JSword, but I don't have the time to do it for SWORD. It looks like a 
couple of lines to osishtmlhref.cpp and osisrtf.cpp.

Beyond that the ESV and WEB should be updated to do proper indentation. 
Are there any others?

In Him,
    DM