[sword-devel] usfm2osis.py in bibledit-web

[Chris Little]

On 6/8/2013 11:12 PM, David Haslam wrote:
> Teus's method of [also] having a merged USFM file is not without merit.
> e.g. During source text development in collaboration with translators and/or
> publishers.
>
> I myself use the same technique - independent to Bibledit.
>
> FWIW, it readily facilitates doing a global search, which is great to check
> for anomalies,
> to extract items using a certain tag or tag pair,
> or for other kinds of analysis such as character frequency counts.
>
> David

I'm surprised that multiple \id lines in a file didn't work just fine in 
usfm2osis.py. The regex handler for \id looks for the end of the file or 
another instance of \id, but was completely untested.

A bug report was opened at
http://www.crosswire.org/tracker/browse/MODTOOLS-44

--Chris