[sword-devel] preverse divs

Thu Mar 1 12:09:19 MST 2012

Would anybody have a moment to answer Patrick's question? He's working on a 
new module that is really important to some people including myself. :-) 

Thanks a lot, 

Ben

Am Mittwoch, 29. Februar 2012, 19:23:29 schrieb Patrick Zimmermann:
> On Wednesday, 29. February 2012 15:29:31 Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> > On 02/29/2012 01:21 PM, Peter von Kaehne wrote:
> > > Ok,
> > > 
> > > Just my 2p to the matter:
> > > 
> > > There are several versions of osis2mod about which produce different
> > > results.
> > > 
> > > I learned the hard way that other than by adding x-preverse to most
> > > titles etc things do NOT work.
> > 
> > Dear Peter,
> > 
> > If you ever find that you need to manually add x-preverse to your OSIS
> > text before importing then a bug should be raised either here or in jira
> > about what standard OSIS markup doesn't get imported correctly via
> > osis2mod.
> > 
> > I realize often you just need to get something to work quickly, but this
> > doesn't help us solve the core problem moving forward.
> > 
> > The clear specification is OSIS.  You should never need to add any
> > custom tags to your document.  Again, that's the goal in a perfect
> > world.  I believe we have somewhere a 'best practices' document for OSIS
> > markup which is know to work with osis2mod.
> 
> Hello Troy,
> 
> Do you know where that 'best practices' document is? I have been eagerly
> searching for one in vain some time ago. I thus started my own showcase OSIS
> module which produces terrible output for much of the syntax it tries to
> show. If there is such a document already, I can gladly throw my miserable
> approach away.
> 
> Patrick
> 
> > We have about 5 OSIS
> > tutorials floating around and I'm not sure what state they are all in,
> > but they should probably be clean up to give you what you ask for below,
> > 'a clear specification to work to'.
> > 
> > http://crosswire.org/osis/tutor.jsp
> > http://crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Tutorial
> > http://crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles
> > http://crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Commentaries
> > http://crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Genbooks
> > 
> > 
> > Troy
> > 
> > > But recently things have become more broken and it has become a mess to
> > > figure out.
> > > 
> > > It is not all engine as modules produced in different times have
> > > different level of "properness".
> > > 
> > > It would be great if we as module makers had a clear specification to
> > > work to - whatever that is - and then could dump the module into
> > > osis2mod and get a working module.
> > > 
> > > At the moment we do not.
> > > 
> > > Peter
> > > 
> > > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > > 
> > >> Datum: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:39:19 +0100
> > >> Von: "Troy A. Griffitts"<scribe at crosswire.org>
> > >> An: SWORD Developers\' Collaboration Forum<sword-devel at crosswire.org>
> > >> Betreff: Re: [sword-devel] preverse divs
> > >> 
> > >> I don't know what's wrong except what I noted in the previous post:
> > >> that
> > >> there is something wrong.
> > >> 
> > >> I want to clear up one thing that seems to be a general
> > >> misunderstanding:
> > >> 
> > >> Module makers should never care or know about x-preverse.
> > >> They should make their module how they think best conforms to the OSIS
> > >> specification.
> > >> osis2mod will add the x-preverse div to the section it things should be
> > >> associated with a verse but display before the verse marker.
> > >> 
> > >> .... in a perfect world anyway.  That's the goal, at least, and
> > >> depending on who's reverted whom's revert, it might work that way now.
> > >> 
> > >> On 02/29/2012 11:09 AM, David Haslam wrote:
> > >>> Hi Troy,
> > >>> 
> > >>> I just tried wrapping the first "section title" for Matt.1.1 as
> > >>> follows:
> > >>> 
> > >>> <div type="section">
> > >>> <div type="x-milestone" subType="x-preverse" sID="pv1"/>
> > >>> <title>Lignez Jezuz</title>
> > >>> <div type="x-milestone" subType="x-preverse" eID="pv1"/>
> > >>> <verse sID="Matt.1.1" osisID="Matt.1.1"/>
> > >>> Levr lignez Jezuz-Krist, Mab David, Mab Abraham.
> > >>> <verse eID="Matt.1.1"/>
> > >>> 
> > >>> After rebuilding the module, the title "Lignez Jezuz" had disappeared
> > >> 
> > >> when
> > >> 
> > >>> viewed with *Xiphos 3.1.5* (in Windows).  In its place there seemed to
> > >> 
> > >> be an
> > >> 
> > >>> extra space.
> > >>> 
> > >>> It was there before, albeit displayed after the verse tag.
> > >>> 
> > >>> So what's wrong?
> > >>> 
> > >>> cf. In *BibleDesktop 1.6*, the same title is still displayed, and
> > >>> still
> > >>> after the verse tag and a line break.
> > >>> 
> > >>> The phrase "not yet supported" seems to be a considerable
> > >> 
> > >> understatement.
> > >> 
> > >>> Regards,
> > >>> 
> > >>> David
> > >>> 
> > >>> --
> > >> 
> > >>> View this message in context:
> > >> http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/preverse-divs-tp4429131p4431114.h
> > >> t
> > >> ml
> > >> 
> > >>> Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> > >>> 
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