[sword-devel] Poetry and indented lines

[SonWon]

Hey, just wanted to throw out my two sense worth.  This needs to be 
selectable since small screens may not benefit from indentation.

Going back to lurking now.


DM Smith wrote:
> 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
>
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