[sword-devel] seeking consensus on OSIS lemma best practice

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Chris Little wrote:
>> This is certainly bad OSIS encoding. It is also not a Sword
>> convention. If anything is implemented that requires a language prefix
>> like this, it represents a bug, whether in Sword or in BibleTime.

Well...this is how SWModule has done this since forever.

Gary Holmlund <gary.holmlund at gmail.com> writes:
> Here is a quote of a comment from Xiphos source code:
>      Strong's words are specified as a prefix letter H or G (Hebrew or
>      Greek) and the numeric word identifier, e.g. G2316 to find \"θεός\"
>      (\"God\").

Yes, that's from one of the help texts in Xiphos' advanced search.  It
simply reflects what has been the case since (what I have always
perceived as) The Dawn Of Net.Time.

See src/modules/swmodule.cpp, the description of case -3 before
SWModule::search().  And then tell me what the 3 special cases are
about, that have to do with noticing "G3588".

(Love the comment: "cheeze.  skip empty article tags that weren't
assigned to any text".  Hm.)