[sword-devel] OSIS example

Daniel Owens dhowens at pmbx.net
Sun Mar 4 19:34:18 MST 2012 

Thanks to everyone for responding earnestly to this.

Daniel

On 03/04/2012 08:07 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> OK Guys,
>
> I spent a little time on this tonight.
>
> I've reworked OSISHeadings to be sane.  It was an old filter and 
> parsed everything manually; it had never been updated to extend and 
> take advantage of SWBasicFilter.  It is much shorter and fairly well 
> commented now.  I'm not promising it works, but it should be readable 
> by anyone who wants to tweak it.
>
> In fact, I may have broken everything :)  So please test.  Or it may 
> just work for both old style and new style preverse chunks-- that was 
> my goal.
>
> Karl, I tried it on the new KJV and got stuff out from RenderText.
>
> Daniel, it outputs stuff from your OSIS Reference module.  I'm not 
> sure it's the right stuff :)
>
> I started an OSIS test in our testsuite.  It starts by creating a 
> module from our new OSIS Reference document and then proceeds to run a 
> single test to check if RenderText will output something from the 
> preverse div in Ps.3.1.
>
> Hope this is a good start.
>
> Troy
>
>
>
>
>
> On 03/05/2012 02:33 AM, DM Smith wrote:
>> Some really weird stuff going on here in the nightly build of BD. I 
>> found Gen 1 in Matt 1, Mark 1 in Genesis chapter 36. Looked through 
>> the entire module and didn't find Psalms.
>>
>> Looks like JSword nightly flipped the two testaments.
>>
>> I have something to look forward to this week.
>>
>> -- DM
>>
>> On Mar 4, 2012, at 6:15 PM, Daniel Owens wrote:
>>
>>> That is wonderful news. I have not been updating to the nightly 
>>> build for awhile, so I downloaded the latest, but the test module 
>>> does not display at all. I am not sure what to make of that, but it 
>>> is a rather unorthodox module in that it only has a little bit of 
>>> content.
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>> On 03/04/2012 04:32 PM, DM Smith wrote:
>>>> The next release of Bible Desktop supports/displays book and 
>>>> chapter introductions. It is available now as a nightly build. How 
>>>> well the nightly build works on any given day is possibly broken.
>>>>
>>>> AndBible will probably support it once JSword is released.
>>>>
>>>> -- DM
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 4, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Daniel Owens wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I did some testing of several of the major front-ends (sorry, I do 
>>>>> not have a Mac or iPhone). I posted the results at 
>>>>> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles/BSPExample#Level_of_Support_by_Front-ends.
>>>>>
>>>>> Overall feature support is strongest in BPBible, followed by 
>>>>> BibleTime and Xiphos tied for second. Then comes BibleCS, 
>>>>> BibleDesktop, and AndBible.
>>>>>
>>>>> That can partly be explained by the fact that BibleDesktop and 
>>>>> AndBible do not display book introductions (that is a reasonable 
>>>>> choice for AndBible). However, both support parallel titles (for 
>>>>> synoptic passages in the Gospels) and canonical psalm titles (as 
>>>>> does BPBible). But BibleTime, Xiphos, and BibleCS simply do not 
>>>>> display the text of Canonical psalm titles. That is a severe bug.
>>>>>
>>>>> As a novice module creator several years ago, this diversity 
>>>>> almost drove me crazy. I guess now at least module creators can 
>>>>> know what features are likely to work well, but it would be nice 
>>>>> if front-ends worked on supporting some of these features, even if 
>>>>> the text is passed through as plain text, such as canonical psalm 
>>>>> titles. Nothing like that should be omitted, even if the display 
>>>>> is not anything special.
>>>>>
>>>>> One last note, variants do not work correctly in any front-end, 
>>>>> which tells me the markup is not right. If anyone can provide a 
>>>>> correction to the markup, please let me know.
>>>>>
>>>>> Daniel
>>>>>
>>>>> On 03/04/2012 01:18 PM, Patrick Zimmermann wrote:
>>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> this is great news. Thank you.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If the rendering produced by xiphos or bibletime is at least some 
>>>>>> sort of
>>>>>> acceptable I'll change the module I'm developing at the moment to 
>>>>>> use the
>>>>>> syntax. Mostly additions, removals and alternatives are affected.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks again,
>>>>>> Patrick
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sunday, 4. March 2012 01:59:15 Daniel Owens wrote:
>>>>>>> Based on varied sources, including Patrick's helpful example 
>>>>>>> OSIS Bible,
>>>>>>> I put together an example OSIS "Bible" that validates and is 
>>>>>>> consistent
>>>>>>> with the wiki page on OSIS Bibles (
>>>>>>> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles). The text itself is 
>>>>>>> mostly
>>>>>>> KJV text, with a little Hebrew to illustrate more than what the 
>>>>>>> KJV can
>>>>>>> by itself. I chose to use the BSP structure because the KJV 
>>>>>>> illustrates
>>>>>>> the BCV structure well already, and I have no idea idea how to 
>>>>>>> deal with
>>>>>>> paragraphs and poetry in the BCV structure.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You can find the example file and the following list of features at
>>>>>>> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Bibles/BSPExample:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - BookGroup and section titles, including parallel passages:<title>
>>>>>>> - Book introduction
>>>>>>> - List:<list>,<item>
>>>>>>> - Table:<table>,<row>,<cell>
>>>>>>> - Bold and italic text:<hi>
>>>>>>> - Strong's numbers, lemma, and morphology:<w>, @lemma, @morph
>>>>>>> - Notes, including study notes and 
>>>>>>> cross-references:<note>,<reference>
>>>>>>> - Marked additions:<transChange>
>>>>>>> - Canonical title (Psalms):<title type="psalm" canonical="true">
>>>>>>> - Poetry markup:<lg>,<l>
>>>>>>> - Divine Name:<seg>,<divineName>
>>>>>>> - Variants:<seg type="x-variant" subType="x-1">
>>>>>>> - Abbreviations:<abbr>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I compiled and tested the module, and I will send a separate 
>>>>>>> email when
>>>>>>> I have a chance to record the results systematically. Suffice it 
>>>>>>> to say,
>>>>>>> no one front-end supports all of the markup well, and some features
>>>>>>> (such as variants and tables) are conspicuously poorly 
>>>>>>> supported. Since
>>>>>>> it is not a complete text of the KJV, some odd display issues 
>>>>>>> should be
>>>>>>> ignored, but most front-ends displayed the "New Testament" title 
>>>>>>> at the
>>>>>>> bottom of Psalm 3. It would be lovely if front-end developers 
>>>>>>> would see
>>>>>>> how their front-end handles it (or doesn't). I can send a compiled
>>>>>>> module to those who are interested.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Feedback is welcome. If I have missed something or used 
>>>>>>> less-than-ideal
>>>>>>> markup, please let me know, and we can change it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Daniel
>>>>>>>
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