[sword-devel] USFM end marker clarification

Chris Little chrislit at crosswire.org
Mon Aug 13 22:30:15 MST 2012


On 08/13/2012 08:18 PM, Kahunapule Michael Johnson wrote:
> I thought it would be odd for USFM to quietly deprecate explicit style end markers in footnotes. I checked again, and it didn't.
> In http://ubs-icap.org/chm/usfm/2.35/index.html?syntax_notes.htm ending a style with another style and with an explicit end marker are both listed as acceptable. Although the set of acceptable end markers is not enumerated, the pattern is clear. Therefore, things that read USFM should be equally happy with either syntax.

Good catch. Thanks for pointing that out. I've adjusted our script 
accordingly so that it will, by default, delete all footnote & 
cross-reference end tags after converting the rest of the note.

-Chris





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