[sword-devel] Questions about usfm2osis.pl

[Daniel Owens]

Thanks, I'm really busy right now.

Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> Send it to me.
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>> Datum: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:04:45 -0000
>> Von: johnduffy at cgcf.net
>> An: "\'SWORD Developers\' Collaboration Forum\'" <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
>> Betreff: Re: [sword-devel] Questions about usfm2osis.pl
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>> Hi Daniel,
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>> Yes, it works even using a relative path if only one file is specified but
>> not the *.sfm.
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>> It is interesting that an unrecognised character is seen at the start of
>> the file, which appears as a square box in front of (or here on top of) the
>> first backslash.  It also keeps the \id as in the extract below, but misses
>> the book div and all book abbreviations in the verseIDs.  
>>
>> From USFM2osis.pl for single book of Psalms in Windows:
>> </header>
>> \id PSA
>> <title type="main">Leabhar na SALM</title>
>> <div type="majorSection">
>> <title>An Chéad Leabhar</title>
>> <chapter sID=".1" osisID=".1"/>
>> <div type="section">
>> <title>Fíorshonas</title>
>> <lg>
>> <l level="1">
>> <verse sID=".1.1" osisID=".1.1"/>
>> Is aoibhinn don fhear nach...
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>> From USFM2osis.pl in Linux Psalms extract from whole Bible (Note no poetry
>> markup was present when this was done, as well as combined titles):
>>  <div type="book" osisID="Ps">
>>    <title short="Leabhar na SALM"/>
>>    <div>
>>     <title type="main">Leabhar na SALM</title>
>>     <chapter sID="Ps.1" osisID="Ps.1" n="1"/>
>>    </div>
>>    <div type="section" canonical="true">
>>     <title level="1">An Chéad Leabhar -- Fíorshonas</title>
>>     <verse sID="Ps.1.1" osisID="Ps.1.1"/>
>>     <p> Is aoibhinn don fhear nach...
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>> In the process, I've seen on individual files that USFM2osis.pl does
>> handle poetry as well as paragraph markup.  If it handled the verseIDs
>> correctly, I'd be tempted to do each Bible book separately and then try to put them
>> all together into a single osis file.
>>
>> Alternatively, since I'm happy with the USFM content now that I've got
>> both the paragraph and poetry markup in place, as well as headings separated
>> out into different levels, do you think that you'd have time to compile it
>> again in Linux?
>>
>> Thanks
>>  
>> John Duffy
>>
>> When I have used usfm2osis.pl successfully it has always been in Linux. 
>> I'd be willing to bet that Chris knows the answer to this one, but the 
>> problem is not the USFM files but how usfm2osis.pl grabs the input from 
>> them. It is possible to process one file if you give an argument with an 
>> absolute path. However, if you use wildcards like *.sfm, it doesn't 
>> work. I don't know why. Again, I'm guessing Chris knows how to do this, 
>> but I've never figured it out. I've just used Linux.
>>
>> Daniel
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